In the first half year of 2023, China’s procuratorial organs have prosecuted 11,675 individuals for intellectual property rights (IPR) infringement crimes, an increase of 36.1% year on year. Trademark infringement crimes accounted for the highest proportion of 88.9%, with 10,384 individuals prosecuted, followed by copyright infringement crimes involving 1,122 individuals, up 1.9 times.
In addition, 167 individuals, mostly internal staff, have been prosecuted for trade secret infringement crimes, up 89.8%. In terms of the types of enterprises involved in trade secret infringement crimes, the victims included both traditional manufacturing enterprises and high-tech companies in fields of information technology, biomedicine and intelligent manufacturing. In terms of the types of trade secrets, infringements of software source code, technical programs, equipment drawings and other technical information are the main types.