China News Service, Lanzhou, April 21 (Reporter Xu Xue) "This year, the Gansu High Court will take Dunhuang culture as the entry point to comprehensively explore the construction of a large protection system involving Dunhuang cultural knowledge, geographical indications, time-honored brands, and traditional Chinese medicine, and continuously cultivate, Create well-known brands and high-quality cases, dig deep, and promote the inheritance, innovation and development of excellent traditional culture." said Yin Bingwen, a member of the Judiciary Committee of the Higher People's Court of Gansu Province and a second-level senior judge.

  On the 20th, the Higher People's Court of Gansu Province publicly released the "2021 White Paper on Judicial Protection of Intellectual Property Rights in Courts in the Province" and "Top Ten Typical Cases of Judicial Protection of Intellectual Property Rights in Courts in the Province in 2021".

  In 2021, the courts of Gansu Province will accept a total of 2,376 first- and second-instance intellectual property civil cases, a year-on-year increase of 62%, and conclude 1,891 cases, with a case closing rate of 83.77%, a year-on-year increase of 55%.

Among them, 2,200 first-instance cases were accepted and 1,727 cases were concluded, with a closing rate of 79%.

176 second-instance cases were accepted and 164 cases were concluded, with a closing rate of 93%.

5 retrial cases were accepted and 5 were concluded.

In addition, 1 intellectual property administrative case was accepted.

  "These cases have the characteristics of a sharp rise in the total number of closed cases, a significant regional distribution of cases, new forms of trademark cases, service guarantees for the revitalization of the seed industry, and remarkable results in transfer and withdrawal." Yin Bingwen said.

  In terms of deepening the reform of intellectual property adjudication system and mechanism, the Gansu Higher Court has explored and improved intellectual property litigation rules, exerted judicial wisdom, and solved the "difficult evidence, long cycle, low compensation, and high cost" in intellectual property technical fact-finding, and strengthened cases Fact finding.

At the same time, the provincial courts have vigorously promoted "quick trial of simple cases" and "fine trial of complex cases", continuously strengthened online litigation services and pre-litigation mediation, effectively relieved the pressure of many cases and few cases, and unified the judgment scale.

  Yin Bingwen said that this year, the Gansu High Court will continue to strengthen evidence preservation and punitive damages based on Gansu Province's location advantage as the three major national seed production bases, so as to protect the reasonable rights and interests of the breeder and the farmers who breed and breed instead. , and severely crack down on illegal infringements, breed more experience in Gansu that can be promoted and replicated, and provide judicial services and guarantees for promoting the revitalization of the seed industry.

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