Four people would go on trial at the Futian court Wednesday for counterfeiting Cisco trademark, the Daily Sunshine reported.

The case was listed as one of the top 10 intellectual property right (IPR) infringement cases in China in 2004.

Police forces in Shenzhen and Dongguan discovered a gang producing counterfeit computer modules Oct. 13, 2004. They raided several locations in Shenzhen and Dongguan, in a joint action with Shenzhen's industry and commerce administration and quality supervision department.

Prior to the action, the economic crime investigation squad under Shenzhen's public security bureau had carried out investigations and learned that the gang members were producing and selling counterfeit Cisco computer modules in Shenzhen and Dongguan.

They seized 1,708 modules bearing the words of "CISCO SYSTEMS," more than 80,000 counterfeit CISCO labels, 10,750 counterfeit package boxes and a car.

Among the modules, 1,622 had price labels, totaling more than 4.8 million yuan (US$592,000).

Four chief suspects, Zhu Junming, Li Jian, Lu Jinghe and Wang Dongyan, were detained.

Investigations found that the gang began to produce and sell counterfeit Cisco products in March 2004.

The national IPR protection office announced China's top 10 IPR infringement cases Jan. 11 this year. Most of them were involved in counterfeiting products of famous international companies.

Other cases include trade name infringement by Guangzhou Estee Lauder Cosmetics Ltd., trademark counterfeiting of LV by two Shenzhen companies, trademark counterfeiting of Adidas by a Shanghai company, trademark counterfeiting of Lacoste by a Yangzhou company in Jiangsu Province, illegal printing of high school textbooks by a Nanjing gang, cross-border selling of pirated DVDs and CDs headed by a U.S. citizen, massive optical disc piracy in Liaoning Province, pirating Microsoft products by a Beijing company and a Tianjin company and trademark infringement of a Hubei company.

(Shenzhen Daily August 24, 2005)