China's Punishment Provisions on Accomplished Crime of Counterfeiting Patent

According to the criminal law of our country, the punishment for the crime of counterfeiting patents is, if the circumstances are serious, imprisonment of not more than three years or criminal detention, and a fine or a single fine. This crime infringes the patent right of others; Objectively speaking, it is a serious act to impersonate a patent granted by others within the validity period of the patent stipulated by law in violation of the state patent management regulations; Subjectively, it is intentional, generally for the purpose of illegally obtaining economic benefits, but some of them are for the purpose of damaging others' reputation and destroying others' patent rights and interests. According to the provisions of Article 216 of the Criminal Law, whoever imitates 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 only be fined. Article 216th of the Criminal Law of People's Republic of China (PRC), 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 only be fined.