Shanghai Courts Increase IP Rights Protection

Courts in Shanghai are stepping up their efforts in dealing with intellectual property rights-related cases, a move to support the city's ambition to become a global center for innovation.


The Shanghai High People's Court recently released guidelines that clarified its working goals and main tasks in helping the city become a global science and technology center.


The guidelines are in five parts with a total of 23 articles. According to the guidelines, Shanghai will further promote the reform of its judicial system, improve the judicial mechanism and address issues that influence justice and constrain judicial efficiency and ability.


Mao Ronghua, vice-president of the Shanghai High People's Court, said it would work to create an internationally influential judicial environment and fulfill its judicial role of standardization, guidance, promotion and protection in intellectual property cases.


In recent years, Shanghai courts have strengthened their efforts in intellectual property-related cases, especially those connected to the construction of a global science and technology center. A specialized intellectual property court was established in the city.


The Shanghai High People's Court said it would fully promote judicial openness and diverse systems to solve IP disputes in the science and technology fields. It will also carry out a series of activities to provide advance warnings of IP rights protection and overseas legal aid services for domestic enterprises seeking overseas development.