Criminal Infringement Law and Legal Definition
Criminal infringement refers to a statutory criminal offense of either willfully infringing a copyright to obtain a commercial advantage or financial gain. It also means trafficking in goods or services that bear a counterfeit mark. Criminal infringement occurs if the counterfeit mark is:
1.identical with, or substantially indistinguishable from a registered mark;
2.likely to confuse or deceive the public.
In United States v. LaMacchia, 871 F. Supp. 535 (D. Mass. 1994), it was held that the mens rea for criminal infringement is that a defendant infringed willfully and for purpose of commercial advantage or private financial gain.
Legal Definition list
- Criminal Impersonation
- Criminal Homicide
- Criminal History Record Information [CHRI]
- Criminal History Information
- Criminal History Background Information Check
- Criminal Infringement
- Criminal Intent
- Criminal Investigator
- Criminal Justice
- Criminal Justice and Forensic Science Reform Act
- Criminal Justice Information Services Division
Related Legal Terms
- Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences [ACJS]
- Administration of Criminal Justice
- American Board of Criminalistics
- Armed Career Criminal
- Armed Career Criminal Act (ACCA)
- Burglary and Criminal Trespass
- Center on Juvenile and Criminal Justice
- Central Criminal Court Act
- Central Repository [Criminal Law]
- Civil Causes of Action - Trademark or Copyright Infringement
