New announcements have been made by the Supreme People’s Court and the Supreme People’s Procuratorate (Prosecutor General’s Office) as they jointly issued Interpretation on Applying the Law in Intellectual Property Infringement Criminal Cases, which has taken effect on 14th September 2020. As a whole, the most recent interpretations aim at enhancing efforts to protect intellectual property rights by simultaneously creating stricter rules for criminalizing offenders and increasing the scope of protection for IP rights’ owners. The new revisions further standardize and regulate parts of the legal process, providing clarity to all and building a healthy legal and business environment. Counterfeits with Minor Alternations still Infringe (Provision 1) Counterfeits have been…