The Supreme People’s Court of China recently issued the 2014 White Paper of Intellectual Property Judicial Protection by Courts, 2014 Top-Ten Judicial China IP Cases Review, Top-Ten Innovative IP Cases Review, and Fifty Typical IP Cases on Apr. 21st 2015.According to the reports, the People’s Courts put 133863 IP cases on file and adjudicated 127129 cases. The figures respectively increase by 19.52% and 10.82% compared to those in 2013, which indicates more efficient and dominant judicial protection in the course of intellectual property protection.
The Vice Presidents of Supreme People’s Court, KaiYuan Tao, on the National Intellectual Property Propaganda and Media Press made a comment that the quantities of IP cases increased frequently in 2014, especially with respect to new type of difficult cases based on complicate technology as well as the issue on interpretation of law.The quality of trial on IP cases had greatly improved, resulting in the quantities and the ratios of adjudicated cases increased substantially. Meanwhile, the figureson cases by reverse or remand significantly decreased due to the increasing quality of trial. Moreover, the public trial of IP cases were on the agenda and development, and the trial on IP cases gradually brought about significant impact.
In the meantime, the People’s Court raised the efficiency on the reform of IP cases trial system in 2014, optimized the issue on choice of forums, improved the technological experts counseling system, and extended the reform range of “three-in-one” program. Through the communication and interaction with administrative agencies and relevant association in the field of intellectual property and scientific technology, the Courts constituted a multi-lateral dispute resolution system on intellectual property which enabled negotiation and cooperation.
President Tao indicated that the People’s Court emphasized on the following four perspectives as the major targets in 2015: the first is the research on how to manifest the dominance of judicial protection on intellectual property; secondly, maintain the quality of IP cases trial, focus on the supervision on case trial, ensure the interpretation of law, and unify the criteria of adjudication; thirdly, improve the IP judicial protection system with Chinese characteristics by depending on the Research Center on Judicial Protection on Intellectual Property of the Supreme People’s Court; lastly, reinforce the guidance on intellectual property courts so as to explore, rectify, and improve the operation of intellectual property courts.
