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China Leapfrogs in IP Protection Over the Past Five Years

2018/03/15

Over the past five years, Chinese courts at different levels concluded 683,000 IP cases, and prosecution proceedings were launched against 120,000 suspects accused of IP crimes, 2.1 folds over the past five years, according to the reports delivered respectively by Zhou Qiang, President of Supreme People's Court (SPC) and Cao Jianming, Procurator General of Supreme People's Procuratorate (SPP) during the 13th NPC on March 9. SPC issued the outline on IPR judicial protection, and worked to explore the application of punitive damages to solve problems including low infringement repercussions but high costs for enforcing rights. SPP stepped up IP judicial protection by establishing information-sharing platform on striking infringement and counterfeiting in 30 provinces, autonomous regions and municipalities including Guangdong, Sichuan and Ningxia. SPP has issued the top ten typical cases of IP protection for five consecutive years. SPP handled 843 cross-regions and special cases on food and drug, environment resources, IPR and maritime, and prosecution proceedings were launched against 1,332 criminals.

Source: China IP News




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