Guangdong Filed and Dealt with 351 Cases of Unfair Competition in 2020

In 2020, the market supervision system of Guangdong Province filed a total of 351 cases of unfair competition, including 142 cases of counterfeiting and confusion, 141 cases of false propaganda, 19 cases of improper sales with a reward, nine cases of commercial bribery, and four cases of violation of trade secrets. There were three cases of commercial defamation cases, and three new Internet unfair competition cases. Among them, 14 cases of unfair competition in the field of epidemic prevention materials were investigated and dealt with, and ten cases of unfair competition in the field of medicine purchase and sale and medical services were investigated and dealt with. The effectiveness of Guangdong Province's anti-unfair competition law enforcement work has been fully affirmed by the National People's Congress Law Enforcement Inspection Team.

 

In response to the intensification of online platform competition in recent years, the emergence of online unfair competition and online pyramid schemes, while the regulatory authorities are facing difficulties in investigating and obtaining evidence, the Guangdong Provincial Market Supervision Bureau has established an unfair competition monitoring mechanism and implemented "intelligent monitoring and the six-step work method of "key clue analysis, online evidence consolidation, online data extraction, judicial expertise confirmation, offline verification and disposal," online and offline simultaneous cracking down on unfair competition. Since June 2020, it has organized the monitoring and analysis of 76 unfair competition clues involving platforms and e-commerce, organized inspections of 241 platform companies, and investigated and dealt with 40 cases of unfair competition in the Internet and e-commerce fields.

 

While strictly enforcing the law, the market supervision department of Guangdong Province vigorously carried out anti-unfair competition law popularization work. The Guangdong Provincial Market Supervision Bureau held a lecture on anti-unfair competition law enforcement with the theme of "Case popularization and interpretation", facing the system, and simultaneously propagating typical anti-unfair competition cases and legal regulations online and offline. They have published the "Administrative Guidelines for the Protection of Trade Secrets" and the reference text of confidentiality agreements, guide operators to improve their awareness and protection capabilities of trade secrets, guide the establishment of trade secret protection bases, workstations (demonstration parks), contact points (demonstration enterprises), etc., and strengthen coordination and linkage, as well as social governance. The whole system carried out anti-unfair competition publicity, training and compliance guidance 755 times.