On February 15, to protect the intellectual property (IP) of Beijing 2022, the Intellectual Property Office of Jiangsu Province (JSIPO), the Jiangsu Provincial Administration for Market Regulation, the Nanjing Municipal Administration for Market Regulation (Intellectual Property Office), and the Jiangning District Market Regulation Bureau (Intellectual Property Office) jointly carried out a law enforcement inspection to protect the Olympic symbols.

The team inspected large commercial complexes such as the Jiangning Golden Eagle Shopping Center, KINGMO Center, and the 21st Sunny Plaza. They primarily checked whether there was any unauthorized use of Olympic logos, mascots, and emblems of Beijing 2022 in advertisements and commodities sold in these places. During the inspection, the team also educated store owners on laws and regulations, such as the Regulation on the Protection of Olympic Symbols, helping raise their awareness of IP protection.

After the special inspection, the inspection team held a symposium on the protection of Olympic symbols. The Nanjing Municipal Administration for Market Regulation (Intellectual Property Office) and the Jiangning District Market Regulation Bureau (Intellectual Property Office) briefed about their progress in the protection of the Olympic symbols and elaborated on how they had handled illegal cases involving anti-pandemic supplies and other fields. The inspection team fully affirmed the approaches the two market regulators took to protect the Olympic symbols and the achievements they had made, and put forward specific requirements for strengthening the protection of the Olympic symbols.

After the launch of the special action, the JSIPO and the Jiangsu Provincial Administration for Market Regulation jointly issued the Implementation Plan for the Special Action to Protect the Symbols of Beijing 2022 Winter Olympic and Paralympic Games to specify the key Olympic symbols to be protected, highlight key links, ascertain the actual situation, strengthen advertising regulation, enhance network supervision, intensify the crackdown on the leading wrongdoers, improve work systems, and strengthen publicity and training. Altogether, the competent authorities at the provincial, municipal, and county (county-level city, district) levels have launched 864 special inspections, handled 30 cases of infringement, and imposed a total amount of RMB 593,100 in fines and confiscated money.