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Beijing IPR court accepts nearly 8,000 cases since operation

Xinhua, November 9, 2015 Adjust font size:

A Beijing court specializing in intellectual property rights (IPR), China's first, has accepted around 8,000 cases since November last year, authorities said Monday.

Su Chi, head of the court, said at a press conference that the court has accepted 7,918 IPR-related cases and closed more than 3,200 over the past year. Most cases were administrative lawsuits.

To handle IPR conflict, the court has cooperated with university law schools and invited academics and lawyers to discuss some legal questions together on a regular basis.

China has been working to protect IPR. Two more IPR courts were set up in Guangzhou and Shanghai in December last year, to deal with cross-regional civil and administrative lawsuits regarding patents, new plant varieties, integrated circuit layout design and technological knowledge.

Chinese courts hear about 110,000 IPR cases annually and this is expected to increase. Endi