China News Service, Beijing, April 22 (Reporter Zhang Su) A plan issued by the Supreme People’s Court of China on the 22nd clarified the focus of judicial protection of intellectual property rights during the "14th Five-Year Plan" period, including strengthening anti-monopoly and anti-monopoly trials. Unfair competition cases.
According to statistics, in 2020, courts across the country received 525,618 new cases of first instance, second instance, and application for retrial, and closed 524,387 cases, an increase of 9.1% and 10.2% respectively over 2019.
Lin Guanghai, deputy chief of the Third Civil Tribunal of the Supreme People’s Court of China, stated that the Supreme Law has issued judicial interpretations and normative documents concerning trade secrets, patent authorization and confirmation, and network intellectual property rights, to “solve difficult problems in the application of the law”.
Speaking of the 2020 intellectual property protection related cases issued by the Supreme Law, Lin Guanghai said that by increasing intellectual property protection in the fields of patents, integrated circuit layout designs, computer software, new plant varieties, etc., to promote the resolution of the "stuck neck" problem; passed Properly hear new types of cases such as artificial intelligence, big data, sports events and online game live broadcasts, and promote the standardized development of emerging business formats.
The "People's Court Intellectual Property Judicial Protection Plan (2021-2025)" issued by the Supreme Law on the same day marked the new focus of the "14th Five-Year Plan" period.
For example, it will strengthen the trial of anti-monopoly and anti-unfair competition cases, and "make relevant judicial interpretations in due course, clearly regulate various types of monopoly and unfair competition, and eliminate market blockades."
The document also stated that it is necessary to properly handle Internet monopoly disputes, improve platform economic anti-monopoly adjudication rules, prevent the disorderly expansion of capital, and promote the healthy and sustainable development of platform economic norms; strengthen the anti-unfair competition law’s judicial protection of commercial signs and resolve them The conflict of rights between different signs; strengthen the judicial protection of trade secrets, and reasonably determine the burden of proof by the parties in accordance with the law, effectively curbing the infringement of trade secrets.
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