SHANGHAI: Zhoushan Customs House (affiliated to Hangzhou Customs District) destroyed in an environmentally-friendly way 50,000 infringing products the Customs administration had seized.
The infringing products that were destroyed, which included 11 categories of products and involved the infringement of 12 trademark rights of both domestic and foreign right holders, were those ones that would be often used in people’s life and production, for example, drills , cut-off machines, sockets, headsets and adhesives. Since the quality of these infringing products may fall short of the standards, they are likely to pose danger to user’s life if being sold at the market. The destroying of these products by Customs would be a protection to the legitimate rights of the right holders and a great deterrence from infringing activities of offenders.
Chenmin, Chief of the Audit-based Control Section of Zhoushan Customs House, said Customs officers, following strictly the rules on environmental protection, entrusted an enterprise which has the qualification to dispose wastes to destroy the infringing products. The products destroyed would be burned for electricity generation after they were fermented. Based on the conservative estimate, the infringing goods could be used to generate at least 3,000 kilowatt hours of electricity.
