According to a report released by the Intellectual Property Court of the Supreme People's Court (SPC), it has accepted 5,121 cases, with 4,220 of them concluded since its establishment in 2019.
The report also said that the cases accepted by the Court last year increased as much as 63 percent compared to 2019 due to the continued rise in intellectual property disputes. The amount of compensation awarded in intellectual property cases increased by 79.3% year on year.
In 2020, the Court heard 376 technology-related IP cases involving parties from Hong Kong, Macao, Taiwan, and foreign countries, with 281 of them concluded.
As a standing judicial organ under China's Supreme People's Court, the IP Court was set up to hear civil and administrative appeals on technology-related intellectual property disputes and anti-monopoly disputes, and it aims to help prevent inconsistency of legal application and improve the quality and efficiency of the trials related to IPR.
Since the cases handled by the Court are complicated and demand specific knowledge and skills in the sector, the Court has selected 39 professional judges across the country, and 36 percent of them have technical and legal interdisciplinary backgrounds to better fit the job.
Also according to the report, the Court has issued 10 judicial interpretations and normative documents to make it more convenient for parties to present evidence, shorten the litigation cycle, reduce the cost of safeguarding rights and increase the amount of compensation. It held 114 series of Judges Conference in the past two years to study difficult legal issues related to IPR and established a talent pool with more than 450 technical investigators covering more than 30 technical fields.
http://english.ipraction.gov.cn/article/ns/202103/337168.html
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