IP Court cases – Local Courts
According to the First Working Conference of China IPR Judgments & Decisions, sponsored by the Supreme People's Court (SPC), held in Suzhou Industrial Park, a national IPR pilot park, in five years from 2002 to 2006, local courts across the country accepted 54,321 civil IPR cases and concluded 52,437 cases, with respective increases of 145.92 percent and 141.99 percent over those of the previous five years from 1997 to 2001 and the annual increase rates are 17.06 percent and 19.29 percent. They accepted 13,170 second-trial civil IPR cases and concluded 12,700 cases, with respective annual increases of 8.93 percent and 9.55 percent.
As the most direct, effective and steady protection method, judicial protection possesses the basic and dominant position in IPR innovation system and is an important part of national IPR strategy as well as an important guarantee for realizing the strategy.
(Source: China Daily)
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