Serious infringement of design patents constitutes a crime. If the circumstances are serious, the act of counterfeiting another person's patent constitutes a crime of counterfeiting patent, and it will be punished with 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, the person in charge and the responsible person shall be punished in accordance with the provisions on crimes committed by natural persons, and the unit shall also be fined.
legal ground
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. 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.