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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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