How many years will the crime of counterfeiting patent be sentenced to?

The sentencing of the crime of counterfeiting patent is: 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. The crime of counterfeiting patent refers to a serious act of violating patent laws and regulations and counterfeiting other people's patents. The object of this crime is a complex object, which not only infringes on the normal activities of the national patent administration department, but also infringes on the patent rights of units or individuals.

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.