How to punish the crime of counterfeiting patents?

Legal Analysis: According to Articles 216 and 220 of the Criminal Law of People's Republic of China (PRC), whoever commits this crime 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 this crime, it shall implement a double penalty system, that is, a single penalty, and the directly responsible person in charge and other directly responsible personnel shall be punished in accordance with the above provisions.

Legal basis: People's Republic of China (PRC) Criminal Law.

Article 216 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 persons who are directly in charge and other persons who are directly responsible shall be punished in accordance with the provisions of this section.