Supreme Court formulates, corrects 20 IPR judicial interpretations in past 7 years

On April 15, Vice President of China's Supreme People's Court and Chief Justice Xiong Xuanguo disclosed, since 2000, the Supreme People's Court has constituted and amended over 20 IPR judicial interpretations, referring to patent, trademark, copyright, new varieties of plants, integrated circuit, technical contract, unfair competition, conflict of rights, domain name, IPR crime, and case jurisdiction and hearing.

Only in 2007, the Supreme People's Court formulated three judicial interpretations, namely, Interpretation on Several Issues of Concrete Application of Laws in Hearing Civil Cases of Unfair Competition, Interpretation on Several Issues of Concrete Application of Laws in Hearing Cases of Infringing New Plant Varieties, and Interpretation on Several Issues of Concrete Application of Laws in Hearing Criminal Cases of Infringing Intellectual Property Rights which was co-promulgated with the Supreme People's Procuratorate, Xiong said when attending the High-level International Symposium on IPR Judicial Protection.

He added, early 2008, the Supreme People's Court issued judicial interpretations in handling civil dispute cases involving registered trademarks, business names and the conflict of prior rights.

Xiong said, the Supreme People's Court will clarify many specific problems on the application of law by means of case guidance. [Chinese version is available on Xinhua]