How does the Criminal Law of People's Republic of China (PRC) punish the crime of counterfeiting patents?

The Criminal Law of People's Republic of China (PRC) punishes the crime of counterfeiting patents in this way: if the circumstances are serious, he shall 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.