China's intellectual property cases increased signi cantly and many in uential, complicated and new cases appeared, according to the White Paper on Judicial Protection of Intellectual Property 2011 issued by the Supreme People's Court on April 19, 2012. The White Paper said that China's intellectual property cases have the following characteristics:
First, the newly received cases increased considerably. In 2011, the local people's courts had newly received almost 60 thousand first instance civil cases of intellectual property, a growth of about 39 percent year-on-year and 5.7 thousand first instance criminal cases, an increase of 43 percent year-on-year.
Second, the influential, complicated and new cases increased.
Third, the number of patent cases continually rises, involving disputes of proprietary intellectual property rights and prosecution of foreign companies and foreign-owned enterprises.
Fourth, more and more cases involved the business marks.
Fifth, the copyright protection has beyond traditional culture significance and expanded toward the economic significance.
Sixth, with increasingly fierce market competition and diverse commercial activities, more and more market competitions need to be defined and standardized according laws.
Meanwhile, copyright cases increased sharply and occupied over half of the total intellectual property cases. The cyber space has become the main battlefield of copyright protection. Serial cases also increased and copyright issues related to development and application of network techniques have caught high attention from IT industry. Therefore, it is unprecedentedly important to strengthen copyright protection and promote the balance of interests of the new business model development.
Source: http://english.people.com.cn/
