China is now experiencing a rapid growth in IPR-related lawsuits, said Jin Kesheng, vice president of the IPR Tribunal of the Supreme People's Court on September 6. According to him, courts in China have been strictly fulfilling their responsibilities prescribed by the Constitution and general laws and have promoted the judicial protection of intellectual property rights to a new level.

He said this when addressing the "2011 China Patent Information Annual Meeting". Jin introduced that local courts across the country opened 42,931 IPR civil cases of first instance in 2010, up 40.18%, and closed 41,718, up 36.74%; meanwhile, they accepted 2,590 IPR-related administrative cases, increasing by 25%, and concluded 2,391, up 21.31%.

"There have been more IPR cases filed in recent years. We've seen a growing number of complicated and foreign-related cases which need to be resolved with great efforts. The public have also paid more attention to those cases," said Jin.

In the future, the courts will continually handle all kinds of IPR cases properly and penalize infringements lawfully so as to avoid IPR abuse and to enhance indigenous innovation, and they will continue to publish the latest updates on the judicial protection of IPR in China via their White Paper on IPR protection and a series of activities, such as the selection of Top 10 major cases and Top 50 typical cases on IPR protection.

（Source:IPR in China）