'Tomato Garden' case in Supreme Court's report

The Supreme People's Court on Thursday released its annual report of intellectual property cases in 2009, with the "Tomato Garden" case being the only criminal case in all the 10 cases, the chinanews.com.cn reported Friday.

"Tomato Garden", which provided downloads of pirated software including Windows XP, saw its controller sentenced to three and a half years in jail and fined one million yuan on August 20, 2009. It was the country's first criminal case of Internet piracy, according to China Daily's earlier report.

Industry insiders estimated "Tomato Garden" version of Microsoft's Windows XP may have been installed in more than 10 million computers in China, chinanews.com.cn said.

Of the 10 intellectual property cases published by the Supreme People's Court, eight were civil cases, one was an administrative case and "Tomato Garden" case was the only criminal case.