Although many foreign rights owners feel more comfortable taking their cases to judges in the country's capital and its financial centre, provincial courts may have more to offer IP owners.
That is the conclusion of research by IP consultancy Rouse, after collating statistics from more than 5,000 court cases around the country, including amount of damages awarded, length of time taken to reach a decision and plaintiff win rates.
In the latest issue of Managing IP, Peter Ollier explains what the data means for IP owners considering filing an IP lawsuit in China.
For example, more plaintiffs have won their cases in courts in Jinan and Changsha than in Beijing and Shanghai. Similarly, courts in Chengdu and Nantong have ordered defendants to pay a higher proportion of the damages claimed than courts in Shanghai and Chongqing.
The article, available to subscribers and free triallists here, includes statistics, analysis and case studies.
Much of the data was provided by Rouse's newly launched China IP Litigation Analysis search tool, available free at www.ciela.cn.
