Nearly half of all IPR cases in Shanghai are copyright infringement
April 18, 2017 Category IPR protection, Weekly
More than 90% of intellectual property violations handled last year related to infringements on copyrights, patents and trademarks, the Shanghai intellectual Property Court said. The Court accepted a total of 1,877 cases of intellectual property infringements last year, up 14% from 2015. Nearly half, 921 cases, related to copyright piracy, with 27% occurring in cyberspace. This year, the court for the first time released a white paper related to computer and online copyright infringements. The Court’s President Wang Qiuliang said the numbers of such infringements were increasing and were hampering the city’s progress in building a technological innovation center. According to the white paper, 167, or 28%, of the total computer software infringements cases accepted in the past two years concerned foreign firms, from software developers to online game operators. Many cases also concerned online streaming, the Shanghai Daily reports.
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