How to punish the crime of counterfeiting patents?

The crime of counterfeiting others' patents should be punished as follows: a natural person who fakes others' patents and the circumstances are serious shall generally be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not more than three years or criminal detention, and shall also or only be fined. If a unit commits a crime, it shall be fined, and the directly responsible person in charge and other directly responsible personnel shall be punished in accordance with the above provisions.

legal ground

Article 2 16 of the criminal law

Whoever counterfeits another person's patent, if the circumstances are serious, shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not more than three years or criminal detention and shall also, or shall only, be fined.

Article 220

Where a unit commits the crimes specified in Articles 213 to 219 of this section, it shall be fined, and the directly responsible person in charge and other directly responsible personnel shall be punished in accordance with the provisions of each article of this section.