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MONDAY, OCTOBER 3, 1988
COUNTERFEIT COMPUTER SOFTWARE: SHOP OWNER SENTENCED TO PRISON
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SENTENCED SALE INFRINGING
ΤΟ COMPUTER
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OWNER WAS A COMPUTER SHOP
TODAY (MONDAY) MONTHS' IMPRISONMENT FOR POSSESSING FOR MANUALS AND DISKETTES WORTH ABOUT $360,000.
SOLE PROPRIETOR OF
THE PURPOSE OF
THE DEFENDANT, HWA YUI-WAI, OMPANY IN THE GOLDEN SHOPPING ARCADE, SHAM SHUI PO, WAS CHARGED 19
FOR COUNTS OF POSSESSION INFRINGING COPIES OF A WORK, NAMELY COMPUTER COPYRIGHT SUBSISTED UNDER THE COPYRIGHT ORDINANCE.
HE WAS ALSO CHARGED WITH
VICTOR BOOK
WITH OR BUSINESS TRADE
IN MANUALS,
WHICH
ΤΟ
12 COUNTS
FOR OF POSSESSING
SALE WHICH A FORGED TRADE MARK WAS
FALSE INVOLVING
TRADE DESCRIPTIONS
COMPUTER MANUALS AND DISKETTES APPLIED, AND ANOTHER SIX COUNTS UNDER THE TRADE DESCRIPTIONS ORDINANCE.
ACTING ON COMPLAINTS BY FOREIGN PRODUCERS, OFFICERS FROM THE CUSTOMS TRADING
AUGUST BUREAU RAIDED THE DEFENDANT'S SHOP IN SEARCHED THE SHOP AND A STORAGE PLACE IN NOVEMBER.
PUBLISHERS
COMPUTER STANDARDS INVESTIGATION
LAST YEAR, AND
AND
AGAIN
OF
6,056
COMPUTER
AND
WHICH CUSTOMS SINGAPORE FOR
IN THE OPERATIONS, OFFICERS SEIZED A TOTAL MANUALS AND 214 COMPUTER DISKETTES VALUED AT $360,660, BELIEVED THE DEFENDANT HAD PURCHASED FROM SALE IN HIS SHOP.
TAIWAN
COMMENTING
ON
THE CASE
DISTRICT COURT,
THE
INVESTIGATION BUREAU,
CONCLUDED
TODAY IN THE WAN CHAI
DEPUTY HEAD OF THE TRADING STANDARDS MR JOHN LAM, SAID TRADERS SHOULD NOT GET THEY MIGHT THEMSELVES INVOLVED IN COUNTERFEITING ACTIVITIES, OR ELSE FACE HEAVY PENALTIES.
ON COMPUTER VIEW TO
HE SAID THE DEPARTMENT WOULD KEEP UP SURVEILLANCE
COUNTERFEITING ACTIVITIES WITH A PIRACY AND ALL SORTS OF
ERADICATING THEM.
MONTHS
FINE "THE PENALTY FOR POSSESSION OF EACH INFRINGING COPY IS A OF $1,000 AND IMPRISONMENT FOR 12
UNDER THE COPYRIGHT ORDINANCE, WHILE COUNTERFEITERS ARE ALSO LIABLE TO A FINE OF $500,000 AND IMPRISONMENT FOR FIVE YEARS UNDER
TRADE DESCRIPTIONS THE ORDINANCE," HE ADDED.
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