Judges call for revision of competition law
April 25, 2016 Category IPR protection, Weekly
Chinese judges have called on legislators to revise a law on unfair competition. Last year alone, Chinese courts accepted 2,181 civil disputes involving unfair competition, a year-on-year increase of 53%, according to Song Xiaoming, Chief Judge of the Supreme People’s Court’s Intellectual Property Tribunal. Such disputes arising from the internet have increased rapidly, Song said. “New and complicated problems are emerging online that the current law, established in the 1990s, cannot solve,” he added. To keep the online market in order and protect online intellectual property rights, he suggested that legislators update the law on unfair competition. Further clarification is also needed on ways to reduce the cost of protecting IP rights and the online evidence that needs to be collected. Last year, the number of IP cases heard by Chinese courts rose by 11.73% year-on-year, with most of them taking place in Beijing and Shanghai, and in Jiangsu, Guangdong and Zhejiang provinces.
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