About 80 grass-root courts nationally could hear IP cases

On October 23, Jiangsu provincial higher people’s court held a trial experience exchanging conference on intellectual property cases in grass-root people’s courts in the whole province, and the presiding judge for No.3 civil tribunal of the Supreme People’s Court Kong Xiangjun was present. The trial work for the grass-root people’s courts on intellectual property cases is just at the preliminary stage for the moment, and it is anticipated that with the further development of the innovative economy, the intellectual property cases will increase ceaselessly, so we need to reinforce the basic construction of the trial system for IP cases so as to bring the grass-root people’s courts into better effects, said Kong.

The current economic situation puts forward higher requirements and anticipation for the IP cases’ trial work, and we have to strengthen the judicial protection for intellectual property rights. Courts at all levels should improve the awareness on risks, hardship, and overall situation, and exert their special functions in the IP cases trial.

At present, there are almost 80 grass-root courts nationally who could hear IP cases, and most of the IP cases were solved at the grass root, according to Kong. But it should be noticed at the same time that, IP cases arouse concerns from home and abroad; although some of them were heard by the grass-root court, they also got a wide attention from the society. We should accumulate experiences for the trial and enhance the quality and efficiency of the case hearing.

(Source：IPR in China)

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