BEIJING, Jan. 28 — The intellectual property (IP) court of China’s Supreme People’s Court (SPC) has accepted 24,602 cases since its establishment on Jan. 1, 2019, and concluded 23,069 of them, the SPC said on Wednesday.
The IP court has played a significant role in safeguarding scientific and technological innovation, upholding fair market competition, serving high-standard opening up and deepening judicial system reform, according to the SPC.
He Zhonglin, deputy head of the IP court, said that exercising centralized jurisdiction helped address the issue of inconsistent adjudication standards and further improved the quality and efficiency of judicial proceedings.
Among the cases accepted, 2,546 involved foreign parties, representing 10.3 percent of the total and showing average annual growth of 18.7 percent, the SPC said, adding that nearly 80 of the court’s rulings have been included in case databases of international organizations such as the World Intellectual Property Organization. (Namibia Daily News/Xinhua)
