DONGGUAN, CHINA—According to information released by Navitar, Inc., Chinese metrology machine maker, Dongguan Jiateng Instrument Co., Ltd. of China, and it’s owner Peng Xiong liang, were fined 20,000 RMB by the local Dongguan China Bureau of Administration for Industry & Commerce (AIC) for falsely advertising on its website, advertisements, and brochures that Jaten metrology inspection machines included Navitar® trademarked video microscope lenses as components, when in fact, they did not.
According to Navitar, Jiateng—also known as Jaten Precision Instrument—was ordered by the Dongguan AIC on March 24, 2014, to immediately cease its illegal conduct of unfair competition and false advertising as it violated Paragraph 1, Article 9 of the Anti?unfair Competition Law of the People’s Republic of China (PRC). In accordance with Paragraph 1, Article 24 of the Anti?unfair Competition Law of the PRC, the bureau has penalized Jiateng.