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China legal tool Intellectual property National framework
Model compensatory, statutory and punitive damages routes for trademark, patent and copyright infringement without improperly multiplying punitive damages onto a statutory fallback.
Trademark, patent and copyright laws allow punitive damages generally in the 1×–5× range for qualifying intentional/malicious serious infringement. Statutory damages differ: trademark up to RMB 5 million; patent RMB 30,000–5 million; copyright RMB 500–5 million.
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