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<section article="gcr" article_name="Criminal Law" number="8-611" title_number="8" title_name="Fraud and Related Crimes" subtitle_number="6" subtitle_name="Counterfeiting and Related Crimes">
  <level label="a">
    <level label="1">
      <text>In this section the following words have the meanings indicated.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>“Counterfeit mark” means:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>an unauthorized copy of intellectual property; or</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>intellectual property affixed to goods knowingly sold, offered for sale, manufactured, or distributed, to identify services offered or rendered, without the authority of the owner of the intellectual property.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
    <level label="3">
      <text>“Intellectual property” means a trademark, service mark, trade name, label, term, device, design, or word adopted or used by a person to identify the goods or services of the person.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="4">
      <text>“Retail value” means:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>a trademark counterfeiter’s selling price for the goods or services that bear or are identified by the counterfeit mark; or</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>a trademark counterfeiter’s selling price of the finished product, if the goods that bear a counterfeit mark are components of the finished product.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
    <level label="5">
      <text>“Trademark counterfeiter” means a person who commits the crime of trademark counterfeiting prohibited by this section.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="b">
    <text>A person may not willfully manufacture, produce, display, advertise, distribute, offer for sale, sell, or possess with the intent to sell or distribute goods or services that the person knows are bearing or are identified by a counterfeit mark.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="c">
    <text>If the aggregate retail value of the goods or services is $1,500 or more, a person who violates this section is guilty of the felony of trademark counterfeiting and on conviction:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>is subject to imprisonment not exceeding 10 years or a fine not exceeding $10,000 or both; and</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>shall transfer all of the goods to the owner of the intellectual property.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="d">
    <text>If the aggregate retail value of the goods or services is less than $1,500, a person who violates this section is guilty of the misdemeanor of trademark counterfeiting and on conviction:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>is subject to imprisonment not exceeding 1 year or a fine not exceeding $1,000 or both; and</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>shall transfer all of the goods to the owner of the intellectual property.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="e">
    <text>An action or prosecution for trademark counterfeiting in which the aggregate retail value of the goods or services is less than $1,500 shall be commenced within 2 years after the commission of the crime.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="f">
    <text>Any goods bearing a counterfeit mark are subject to seizure by a law enforcement officer to preserve the goods for transfer to the owner of the intellectual property either:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>under an agreement with the person alleged to have committed the crime; or</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>after a conviction under this section.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="g">
    <text>State or federal registration of intellectual property is prima facie evidence that the intellectual property is a trademark or trade name.</text>
  </level>
</section>
