Alibaba announces top ten intellectual property cases in 2016: destroying 675 counterfeit dens in a year

　　#Laogao E-commerce Online Information# On January 16, Alibaba announced the establishment of the global "Big Data Anti-Counterfeiting Alliance" and announced the top ten typical intellectual property protection cases in 2016.

　　Cross-border counterfeit Mobil lubricant case, counterfeit Apple accessories case, WeChat Moments Moments case... On January 16, Alibaba announced the establishment of the global "Big Data Anti-Counterfeiting Alliance" and announced the top ten typical intellectual property protection cases in 2016. It was disclosed that between September 2015 and August 2016 alone, relying on Alibaba's "big data anti-counterfeiting new weapons", law enforcement departments have closed about 675 fake products production, inventory and sales points.

　　"The success of these offline counterfeiting cases is hard-won. In the popular words now, "God knows what the fight against counterfeiting waiters have experienced," said Zheng Junfang. "In 2016, we cracked far more than these ten counterfeiting cases, but we hope that by publishing these ten typical cases, people who have not experienced it can feel the seriousness of the counterfeiting situation. It is urgent for society to jointly govern counterfeiting!"

　　Since its founding, Alibaba has never stopped fighting offline counterfeit goods. As of the end of 2016, more than 18,000 international brands including Apple, Burberry, LV, Cartier, Nike, etc. have reached cooperation with Alibaba to work together to fight against counterfeit goods.

　　Zheng Junfang solemnly promised on the day of the establishment of the "Big Data Anti-Counterfeiting Alliance", "Ali is willing to contribute all its experience, capabilities, technology and resources in ten years of anti-counterfeiting, and continue to fight with anti-counterfeiting people all over the world!"

　　Case 1: Cross-border counterfeit lubricant case

　　In November 2015, Ningbo Customs intercepted a batch of smuggled counterfeit lubricant. With the assistance of Alibaba's big data, the police finally found that the batch of lubricant was produced and filled from Malaysia and flowed into the country from Yiwu, Guangdong and other places. After more than a year of investigation, in June 2016, under the command of the Economic Investigation Bureau of the Ministry of Public Security, Zhejiang and Guangdong police arrested 11 criminal suspects and successfully investigated and dealt with three warehouses in Fanyu District, Tianhe District, and Jinhua Yiwu Warehouses in Guangdong, and investigated and dealt with nearly 10,000 counterfeit lubrications of brands such as "Mobil", "Shell", and "Cashiredo". By checking sales contracts, lists, etc., the total amount involved is estimated to be over 100 million yuan. At present, the case has been contacted by the Malaysian government through the International Cooperation Bureau of the Ministry of Public Security and the Interpol to investigate the local counterfeit lubricant manufacturers.

　　Case 2: Counterfeit Amway Products

　　In March 2016, Alibaba's anti-counterfeiting special forces cooperated with Amway in the United States to discover counterfeiting gangs located in Taizhou, Wenzhou and other places through big data analysis. After more than four months of intense reconnaissance, Alibaba assisted the police in investigating and punishing more than 20 counterfeit product sales, warehousing and filling dens in many places such as Zhejiang, Heilongjiang, Henan and Guangdong, and thousands of boxes of counterfeit Amway and other well-known brands. More than ten criminal suspects were arrested, with a total amount involved in the case of 1.05 billion yuan.

　　Case 3: Fake Samsung and Kingston memory case

　　In early May 2016, the Taizhou Economic Investigation Detachment obtained a clue of a case suspected of selling counterfeit brand memory. With the assistance of Alibaba's big data, the police found that the memory stick counterfeiter set up a counterfeiting den in the Huaqiangbei area of ​​Shenzhen, Guangdong, and wholesale to the next company through online and offline wholesale, and the next company will then sell it through the Internet or local electronic market. The entire criminal network involves 12 provinces and cities, including Guangdong, Zhejiang, Beijing, Hunan, Shanghai, Jiangsu, Heilongjiang, Sichuan, Anhui, Shandong, Jiangxi, Fujian, and 58 online stores, with a total amount involved in the case reaching over 100 million yuan. In July 2016, with the assistance of Alibaba Big Data, the Economic Investigation Bureau of the Ministry of Public Security was unified in command, and the public security organs in various places involved carried out network closing operations one after another, destroying 13 counterfeit memory dens, arresting 16 criminal suspects, and investigating and punishing more than 15,000 memory sticks for counterfeit "Kinston" and "Samsung" brands on the spot, and more than 100,000 sets of supporting trademarks and logos, with a total amount of more than 120 million yuan involved.

　　Case 4: Putian fake shoes series case

　　Since 2016, Alibaba's anti-counterfeiting special forces have cooperated with the police to conduct in-depth investigations in Putian, Fujian, the hardest hit area of ​​counterfeit brand sports shoes, and locked in multiple counterfeit shoe production and sale dens, with the efforts of Putian law enforcement departments. A total of 7 cases of counterfeit shoes and clothing were investigated and dealt with, nearly 60,000 pairs of counterfeit sports shoes such as Adidas and Nike, and about 100,000 counterfeit sportswear, with a total amount involved in the case reaching more than 72 million yuan. After investigation, these counterfeit brand sports shoes and clothing were mainly sent offline to counterfeit brand shoes and clothing wholesalers in many provinces, and were later sold through WeChat Moments, JD.com and offline physical stores.

　　Case 5: The case of counterfeiting harmful weight loss drugs on WeChat Moments

　　In September 2016, with the assistance of Alibaba Big Data, the Huaihua Municipal Public Security Bureau and the Huaihua Municipal Food and Drug Administration jointly launched a joint attack and successfully cracked a large-scale case of producing and selling "lightning thin" harmful counterfeit weight loss drugs. The 22 criminal suspects led by Yao Moumou were arrested, and 600,000 harmful health foods were successfully prevented from flowing into the market. During 2016, the suspect Yao Moumou established a top-down "Lightning Thin" harmful weight loss medicine through WeChat. He and his agent sold the "Lightning Thin" product across the country through WeChat. His sales staff once reached thousands, and the funds involved exceeded 100 million yuan. Police said that more than 90% of the "lightning thin" counterfeit weight loss pills in the case were sold through WeChat Moments and less than 10% were sold through other online platforms.

　　Case 6: Case of counterfeit Apple accessories

　　From March to June 2016, Alibaba's anti-counterfeiting special forces team cooperated with Apple and defeated two Apple Beats counterfeit headphone dens in Hefei and Shenzhen. At the end of March in Hefei, Alibaba's anti-counterfeiting special forces successfully broke the den of selling counterfeit Apple accessories on multiple e-commerce platforms such as Taobao, JD.com, and No. 1 Store. Assist the police in investigating and punishing more than 10,000 counterfeit Apple products, as well as a counterfeit seal from Apple and several authorization letters signed by the counterfeit legal representative Cook, the total amount involved reached more than one million yuan. In June, the police seized 2,252 suspected counterfeit Beats headphone products, 500 packaging bags and a batch of packaging boxes at Shenzhen. The amount involved in the case was hundreds of thousands of yuan, and two criminal suspects were arrested.

　　Case 7: BIODERMA makeup remover case

　　In May 2016, Alibaba's anti-counterfeiting special forces, brand parties, Shenzhen police and others investigated and dealt with a case of producing and selling counterfeit Bidema brand (BIODERMA) makeup remover, arresting three criminal suspects, with a total amount involved exceeding 1 million yuan. Since 2015, the suspects in Shenzhen have sold more than 10,000 bottles of fake BIODERMA makeup remover through WeChat Moments and e-commerce platforms, making illegal profits of hundreds of thousands of yuan. After arresting the counterfeit selling gang on the sales side, Alibaba and the police cracked down on the counterfeit Bedma makeup remover water den in Shenzhen after half a month of reconnaissance. Since 2016, Alibaba has joined hands with multiple cosmetic brands to destroy multiple counterfeit dens in offline production and sales, arresting more than ten people involved, with a total amount of nearly 15 million yuan.

　　Case 8: The case of counterfeit royal pet food

　　In June 2016, Alibaba cooperated with Xuzhou Public Security, Mars Group and others to crack down on the major case of manufacturing and selling counterfeit brand pet food. During 2015, the suspects Ma and others sold more than 60,000 bags of fake royal pet grain on WeChat Moments and Taobao and other software platforms, with sales coverage covering 27 provinces, cities and autonomous regions across the country. Up to now, Xuzhou Public Security has destroyed 6 criminal dens, destroyed 1 counterfeit brand outer packaging den, arrested 4 criminal suspects, and seized 20 tons of counterfeit cat food that has not yet been sold. The total amount involved exceeded 50 million yuan.

　　Case 9: The case of counterfeit Fila clothing

　　From July to September 2016, with the assistance of Alibaba Big Data, the police successively destroyed three production, processing and sales dens of counterfeit File clothing production, processing and sales dens in Shunyi, Qingdao, and Gaomi, Weifang, and arrested 7 criminal suspects, and seized nearly 10,000 counterfeit File clothing, with a total amount involved in the case reaching 10 million yuan. In order to obtain evidence of the crime of the suspect in producing and selling counterfeit goods in Qingdao, investigators added the counterfeit seller's WeChat friend as the buyer. But seeing that the person who added friends was not a familiar buyer, the alert counterfeiter immediately deleted all the photos of fake clothing in the "Friends Circle".

　　Case 10: Malicious complaints and fraud cases on fake official website

　　In September 2016, Alibaba's Platform Governance Department assisted Foshan police in cracking down a criminal gang that used "fake brand official website" and intellectual property rights protection mechanism to make "malicious complaints" and blackmailed nearly 100 Taobao sellers. From May to July 2016, Liang Moumou and others used the fake brand official website to initiate an intellectual property complaint on the grounds that Taobao merchants had stolen their "official website" pictures, requiring merchants to delete information links for related products. More than 98 Taobao sellers were extorted by Liang Moumou and others for "authorization fees" ranging from 1,000 yuan to 30,000 yuan. In addition, in order to avoid platform supervision, Liang Moumou and others communicated every time they were conducted on social software outside Taobao such as QQ. Afterwards, Liang Moumou and others were officially approved for arrest for fraud.

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