China commits to improved IP enforcement
06 April 2009
Peter Ollier and Janice Qu, Hong Kong
China’s Supreme People’s Court has issued guidelines for implementing the National IP Strategy that will lead to unified tribunals handling civil, criminal and administrative IP courts and may create a specialist IP appeal court
"The spirit of the opinion is clearly saying that we have to take further steps to punish repeat infringers and those infringing for commercial gain," according to Luke Minford, head of China operations for Rouse.
The Guidelines set out a series of goals for how to implement China's National IP Strategy - a roadmap designed to ensure that China becomes one of the world's most innovative countries by 2020 - which was published in June last year.
According to a translation provided by Rouse, paragraph 25 of the guidelines states that the Court will "study and design a special IP rights judicial court for accepting civil,...
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