Overview

In 2011, 6000 patent infringement cases were filed in China - twice as many as that in the US. To address this, on 16th December 2011, the Chinese Supreme People's Court issued judicial guidelines for IP infringement adjudication with the aim of strengthening China's IP enforcement to promote self-reliant innovations. The Opinion is one of the most important judicial guidelines for patent practitioners in China.

The new goals for the Chinese judiciary include procedural transparency and safeguards, judicial predictability and consistency, and lower costs of IP enforcement. Significantly, the SPC stressed the importance of ensuring correct rulings by first instance courts to provide prompt judicial relief.

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