Coach, a leading American designer and maker of luxury lifestyle handbags and accessories, has signed a memorandum of understanding with Taobao.com, the Chinese Internet shopping subsidiary of Alibaba Group, to prevent the sale of fake Coach products on this Chinese website.

Cigarette-maker Philip Morris USA filed two lawsuits last week in U.S. District Court against 34 New York City retailers for selling counterfeit versions of the company's Marlboro brand cigarettes.

Thirteen Chinese Ministries, including the Ministry of Health, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, and the State Food and Drug Administration, have jointly launched a nationwide campaign against both false medicine advertisements and sending fake pharmaceuticals through the express mail.

Chinese online travel and hotel booker, Ctrip.com, has made a public announcement in which it apologizes to a consumer surnamed Liang for selling him fake insurance policies and agrees to pay him CNY4,000 in compensation.

In a move that suggests China is becoming serious about intellectual property rights, Fujian Xiapu County Court recently issued a landmark criminal conviction and heavy penalties against the Xiapu Huafeng Factory after finding the factory and its legal representative guilty of counterfeiting Honeywell's "Bendix" trademark as well as brands of several other international companies.

Seven vendors at Beijing's Silk Market have been ordered to stop and rectify their business for selling counterfeit famous brand goods.

China's State Food and Drug Administration has found out during a recent review that some websites in the country are pretending to be other organizations by releasing false medicine information and selling fake medicines that endanger the public's health.