Off the wire
• 2nd Ld-Writethru-Xinhua Insight: China pledges stability, reform in 2017 as key economic meeting ends  • Europe not to follow U.S. to raise benchmark rate: expert  • Hamas militant dies in training facility accident  • Bilateral trade between Indonesia and Brunei far from expectation: ambassador  • Totally 450 inmates in Belgian prisons possibly bear extremist ideas: report  • Spotlight: China's economy set to impress as supply-side structural reform continues  • 1st Ld Writethru: Beijing endures first smog red alert of the year  • Results of CBA league  • Standings of CBA league  • Shenzhen-Hong Kong stock link attracts net overseas investment inflow  
You are here: 　 Home

China to set up national-level IPR court of appeals

Xinhua, December 16, 2016 Adjust font size:

A senior Chinese judge on Friday said the Supreme People's Court (SPC) is considering a national appeal court specializing in intellectual property rights (IPR).

Tao Kaiyuan, vice president of the SPC, made the remarks during a conference in Beijing.

"[We] shall make the establishment of a national-level IPR court of appeals a national strategy," Tao said, adding that the SPC will come up with a more detailed plan after consultation.

A leading group comprised of senior judges will coordinate judicial reform in IPR cases in the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region, she said.

Chinese courts heard 133,863 IPR cases in 2014, 19.5 percent more than the year before, according to a judicial IPR white paper.

Specialized IPR courts were established in 2014 in Beijing, Guangzhou and Shanghai leading to a significant improvement in IPR regulation.

According to Tao, the three courts have heard more than 30,000 cases in the past two years. Endi