Greater penalties

Chinese courts will impose greater penalties on IPR violations to allow the judiciary to play a leading role in the country's overall IPR protection strategy, a senior court official recently told a forum.

"We should make sure that we can enable IPR holders to get enough compensation, which should deprive the infringer of any benefit and make the consequences for their actions dire," Xi Xiaoming, vice-president of the Supreme People's Court, said at a national work conference on IPR-related trials in Chongqing.

Compensations should also include costs that IPR holders have incurred to maintain their rights, the amount of which could be calculated separately from the compensation given by court rulings, he said.

The courts will also adopt more "provisional measures" prior to final verdicts on IPR cases to protect victims.

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