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| 八卷九期 89年05月16日 |
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"K Plan" Yields Large Results |
| Taiwan's highly-publicized "K Plan" resulted in the seizure of over NT$1.85 billion worth of pirated and counterfeit products during the first three months of 2000. The K Plan is a wide-scale effort to protect the rights of intellectual property rights owners and to prevent the spread of pirated CD-ROM products. The effort to conduct raids for pirated and infringing products is led by prosecutors with the assistance of rights owners, the Anti-Counterfeiting Committee, the Intellectual Property Office, and the National Police Administration. From January through March 2000, the K Plan targeted 257 cases involving counterfeit and pirated products, resulting in 277 suspects referred to district courts for prosecution. In addition to the closure of ten underground factories, equipment and infringing products seized during raids included two copy machines, four computer master machines, 584,968 pirated game CDs, 38,766 counterfeit game cartridges, 27,336 pirated audio CDs, 27,336 pirated audio cassettes, 3,138 pirated VCDs, 234 DVDs, 9,806 copies of pirated bundled computer software, and 350 MP3. The total value of the pirated and infringing products seized was estimated to be NT$1,850,450,000. |
