On July 1, the Supreme Court released Several Opinions on Providing Judicial Safeguards and Services for Accelerating the Transformation of Economic Growth (hereinafter referred to as Opinions). The Opinions requires courts at all levels to beef up IPR judicial protection to promote strategic industrial development and enforce the IPR protection of core technologies. The goal is to promote new high-tech industrial developments in energy, medicine and environmental protection areas.
The Opinions calls for proper trial of IPR cases to safeguard independent innovations, steps up the protection of well-known trademark, geographical indications and the trademark of new strategic industries and modern service industries and promotes the creation of self-owned brands and the development of brand economy.
Under the Opinions, courts at all levels are required to properly deal with the anti-monopoly cases and unfair competition cases to prevent the monopolistic behaviors in the process of scientific and technological development and technology transfer. It’s necessary to beef up copyright protection on news media, radio, film and television, literature and art, entertainment, advertisement project and so on. It’s urgent to punish the criminal behaviors related with trademark, copyright and patent infringements in accordance with the law.
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Opinions also points out that courts at all levels should properly cope with cases related with economic restructuring to safeguard the optimization of economic structure. This involves cases related with the disputes arising from the urban and rural structure adjustment and cases related with bankruptcy and compulsory liquidation. The aim is to push forward industry structure transformation and upgrading.
