In 2019, Chinese courts concluded a total of 418,000 IP-related cases, giving stronger support to IP rights holders and increasing punishments for violators, the work report showed.
Among these cases, the new IP Court received 1,684 patent-related cases in the past year, of which about 99 percent came from intermediate people's courts, mainly covering medicines, telecommunication, machinery, agriculture and forestry, according to Luo Dongchuan, vice-president of the Supreme People's Court
The amount of compensation raised by litigants in three of these disputes was over 100 million yuan ($14 million), while the figure in 17 others also exceeded 10 million yuan, the statistics showed.
"Such numbers tell us that patents have been emerging in more and various aspects of people's livelihoods, and are influencing our lives and the country's development," Luo said.
While shortening the time to hear patent cases by leaping over courts at the provincial level, the new IP Court also supported judges in identifying cases with complicated technical items by establishing a talent database and sharing system with lower courts, according to Luo.
Source: China Daily
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