Since Hohhot, a city in northern China's Inner Mongolian Autonomous Region, conducted a special campaign on combating intellectual property violations and counterfeiting, a number of cases have been tackled efficiently, safeguarding a sound and equitable market order.

As of the end of this May, 194 cases have been filed involving 1,666,000 yuan (261,395 US dollars), in which 180 have already been concluded involving 1,165,000 yuan (182,788 US dollars). In addition, 11 illicit lairs have been destroyed in the campaign.

Those cases mainly related to sectors such as daily necessities, home appliances, agricultural materials, apparel, books and audio-video disks, raw steel materials and teaching supplements.

The prominent problems found in those cases were unstandardized marks on patented products, counterfeiting, sales of illegal publications, and unlicensed production.

Local authorities including the administrations for industry and commerce, culture, development and reform, quality supervision, as well as public security organs, the intermediate people's court and procuratorates all exerted gigantic efforts to this campaign.

(Source: IPR in China)