On February 4, a delegation led by Charlie Everitt, global vice-president of legal and head of global brand protection at Reckitt Benckiser Group, traveled from its London headquarters to Zhengzhou for expressing gratitude to the procuratorate of the Zhengzhou Airport Economy Zone (ZAEZ). The delegation presented a plaque to the "Zhi·Hang" intellectual property protection team, recognizing its efficient handling of infringement cases involving the company's core brands. The plaque read: "Proactive service with warmth; judicial protection with responsibility."
Procurators met with Reckitt Benckiser representatives to discuss full-chain judicial protection of IP rights. The company said it will rely on the procuratorate's "rights holder protection database" to further strengthen cooperation. Officials from the zone's business environment office attended the meeting and briefed attendees on recent developments in local IP protection mechanisms. Last year, the procuratorate handled a series of cases involving counterfeit "Dettol" registered trademarks, with the amount involved exceeding 2 million yuan. The cases helped recover 770,000 yuan in economic losses for the company, leadingto the dismantling of one counterfeit production site and the closure of 15 online stores. The entire process, from investigation to verdict, took merely seven months. Charlie Everitt praised it as "Zhengzhou speed". (Translator: Zhang Yahan Proofreader: Jiao Dan and Zhao Hanqing)
