Intellectual Property Protection
in Chengdu in 2004
VI. Improving the Quality of Trials and Enhancing
Judicial Protection of Intellectual Property
The Intermediate People¡¯s Court of Chengdu enhanced the cognizance
of intellectual property cases. In 2004, it accepted
and heard in total 299 first and second trial civil cases of
The Intellectual Property Right Trial
Chamber of the Intermediate People's Court of Chengdu specially
hears Intellectual property cases such as patent, trademark,
copyright, countering unfair competition, disputes in technical
contracts, etc. Judges of the Intellectual Property Right Trial
Chamber of the Intermediate People's Court are exchanging opinions
on cases. |
intellectual property, and winded up 237 cases (including
10 cases related to foreign countries or Hongkong-Macao-Taiwan
areas), increased by 49.5 percent and 52.9
percent respectively over the same period last year. In the cases
winded up, there were many new-typed, difficult and complicated ones
with significant social effects, such as unfair competitive disputes
on the brand of Liao Sparerib, infringement disputes on the trademark
of Zhenguo Coffee, copyright-infringement disputes on the ADOBE series
software, disputes on the copyright-infringement of Taiwan famous
animator named JiMi and disputes on right-infringement of new breeds
of plants, etc. The Intermediate People¡¯s Court of Chengdu, strictly
in accordance with relevant laws of protecting intellectual property,
pronounced those obliges to win lawsuits, which vigorously blew infringement
activities and safeguarded the healthy and orderly development of
social economic order. In addition to seeking the judicial justness,
the court also paid attention to the judicial efficiency and social
results, enhanced the mediation work, enabled the rate of ending intellectual
property cases by mediation to reach 73.9%, which
lowered lawsuit costs and solved disputes thoroughly.
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