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- If you do not know intellectual property rights, please look at this part. . .
- 1. What kinds of rights fit into category of IPR（Intellectual Property Rights）?
- IPR include trademark rights, copyrights, patent rights, etc., all of which are valuable intangible assets enjoying equal importance as tangible ones like clients, technologies, and equipments and so on. SOSCO would be able to protect your IPR from infringements or at least minimize impact incurred by infringements.
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- 1. What kinds of rights fit into category of IPR（Intellectual Property Rights）?
- IPR include trademark rights, copyrights, patent rights, etc., all of which are valuable intangible assets enjoying equal importance as tangible ones like clients, technologies, and equipments and so on. SOSCO would be able to protect your IPR from infringements and at least minimize impact incurred by infringements.
- 2. Why it's a must to fight against counterfeits?
- Please do pay attention to counterfeits. Counterfeits will deal blow to brand names in the following three perspectives:
- ● Counterfeits severely affecting sales of authentic products; Counterfeits will take advantage of consumers' mentality of preferring cheapness and make full use of much cheaper price to attract consumers, which directly results in sales shrinkage and affects corporate interest.
- ● Counterfeits posing adverse effect on corporate integrity and brand reputation; Circulation of counterfeits with shoddy quality in market might lead consumers to false idea that quality of authentic products might be inferior as well. Even if it's consumers' fault to buy counterfeits themselves, who might feel disappointed about manufacturers of authentic products, corporate reputation will be affected.
- ● Counterfeits affecting corporate development in all respects;
Counterfeits running wild will directly result in retardation of brand-promotion for the companies intending to diversify and internationalize. In terms of sustainable development, counterfeits will bring uncountable losses.
- 3. What are common methods to protect IPR?
- First of all, based on a firm grip on evidences of infringement, IPR holders could resort to following methods:
- ● To launch administrative raids on acts of infringement via administrative enforcement organs (Administration of Industry and Commerce, Technology Supervision Bureau and IPR Bureau, etc)
- ● To launch criminal raids on acts of infringement through PSB (Public Security Bureau), Courts and Procuratorial organs.
- ● To warn, raid and punish against acts of infringement via other legal channels.
- 4. How to take first step to fight against counterfeits?
- ● We would be able to ascertain tangible clues and secure concrete evidences and advance detailed raid solution
- ● If specific situation kept unknown and strong intent to proceed with awareness of rampant counterfeits, market survey will be recommended in order to find out specific conditions about counterfeits and put forward proper solutions.
- 5. What and how to do?
- As professional provider of IPR-protection services, SOSCO would be able to provide most considerate services as follows:
- ● Investigation:
Making full use of staff and network to secure grip on various tangible information about counterfeits, including manufacturers and dealers to prepare for raid action - ● Raid :
Coordinating with governmental authorities on your behalf in order to resort to appropriate methods to raid counterfeiters and crack down acts of infringement. - ● Others:
Providing all other legal services to preserve your rights;
- SOSCO enjoy professional investigation teams, extensive network of intelligence and wide connections. All of the investigators, lawyers, consultants and informants have profound knowledge and related background.
SOSCO always practice principles of “Professional, Profound, Comprehensive and Timely” and have confidence to provide satisfactory services.
- 6. Are you law-enforcement subject?
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SOSCO is NOT law-enforcement subject.
Law-enforcement subjects are all governmental organs of power like AIC, TSB, PSB, etc. We can fulfill role on your behalf to select and coordinate with corresponding enforcement organs based on specific condition for more efficient enforcement action.
- 7. Which side is responsible for legal problems occurring in the course of law-enforcement?
- SOSCO is entirely responsible for all legal problems occurring in the course of law-enforcement. Your side only needs to assist with governmental organs of power by issuing Power of Attorney to SOSCO and verification letter on samples.
- 8. Do we need to take part in law-enforcement action?
- In most cases, you do not have to take part in law-enforcement action unless you want to join us as on-site supervisor.
- 9. When service fees begin to occur?
- SOSCO specially set up investigation teams to collect related information about counterfeits being manufactured and distributed and report to trademark-holders concerned gratis.
Once anti-counterfeits cooperation is firmed up in written against specific target with investigation and / or raid action, advancing part of agreed payment is needed and the remaining majority of which is supposed to be remitted after conducting a successful action and submitting a formal report.
- 10. Are there any follow-ups after raid?
- It wouldn't end up only with a raid action. SOSCO will follow up on it until penalty decision is issued by enforcement organs.
