China's General Administration of Customs (GAC) has seized 25.41 million items of goods suspected of infringing intellectual property rights (IPR) in the first four months of 2021 amid the country's stepped-up IPR protection.
A total of 18,800 batches of such goods were impounded during the January - April period, the GAC said.
Customs added 999 registered users of IP protection records, and approved 4,491 applications for IPR registration during the period, of which 3,930 applications were related to trademark rights, 220 to copyrights and 341 to patents, GAC data showed.
The GAC has pledged stronger IPR law enforcement, saying more focuses will be put on cross-border commerce, express delivery and other key channels, as well as various transportation modes.
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