Recently, Huangpu Customs in south China's Guangdong Province seized 37,022 earphones infringing on IPRs of “SAMSUNG”, “Apple” and “JBL” through the joint IPR enforcement among the Customs authorities of Guangdong, Hong Kong and Macao.

At Fenggang Customs House subordinate to Huangpu Customs, customs officers intercepted an inbound consignment declared as “earphones” and “no specification”. Through out-of-box inspection, they found 33,000 earphones printed with “SAMSUNG” mark, 3,920 earphones with “Apple” mark and 102 earphones with “JBL” mark. Through identification by relevant IPR owners, these earphones were confirmed to be counterfeit. Now, at the request of the IPR owners, the IPR-infringing earphones are all detained under investigation by the Customs.