China releases National IP Strategy
13 June 2008
Peter Ollier, Hong Kong
China’s State Council on Tuesday approved a long-awaited National IP Strategy that commits the government to consider developing specialized IP courts
Section 4 of the Strategy deals with IP enforcement. According to a preliminary translation provided by Baker & McKenzie, paragraph 45 states that the government should “explore the possibility of establishing specialized IP courts to deal with IP-related civil, administrative and criminal cases".
IP holders in China often say that it is difficult to transfer a case from the administrative to the criminal enforcement systems and claim that a unified court would help reduce...
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