Number of IPR cases on the rise
April 30, 2013 Category IPR protection, Weekly
Courts across China handled 83,850 civil lawsuits over intellectual property rights in 2012, up 44.1% year-on-year, according to the IPR white paper of the Supreme People’s Court. In 2012, courts across the country received about 87,420 new civil lawsuits over IPR issues, a year-on-year jump of 46%. More than 60,000 suspects were detained for IPR infringement and producing and selling substandard commodities in 43,000 cases in 2012, with a total value of CNY11.3 billion. The iPad trademark dispute between Apple and Shenzhen’s Proview topped a list of 10 major court cases involving IPR infringement last year. Apple eventually agreed to pay USD60 million to Proview in a court-mediated settlement in July. The court also released 50 typical IPR cases from 2012 and, for the first time, 10 “innovative cases” involving new legal fields or matters, which experts said can be used as a guide on how to handle similar lawsuits. Wang Chuang, Vice President of the Third Tribunal for civil trials said the number of IPR cases involving an overseas party is on the rise, and there is an increase in the number of cases in which transnational companies are accused of infringing the rights of Chinese firms. He also said transnational companies can have full confidence in China’s judicial protection of intellectual property rights because of improvements China has made in recent years.
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