China News Service, February 22. On the 22nd, the State Council Information Office held a press conference. Tao Kaiyuan, Vice President of the Supreme People's Court and Second Class Justice, introduced that since its establishment on January 1, 2019, the Intellectual Property Tribunal of the Supreme People's Court has been "High starting point, high standards, high level, internationalization" requires solid and effective advancement of various tasks.
As of December 31, 2023, the court had accepted a total of 18,924 cases and concluded 15,710 cases. The quality and efficiency of the trials were significantly better than the trial mechanism before the reform, which fully reflected the institutional advantages of the appeal trial mechanism for intellectual property cases at the national level and effectively strengthened the knowledge base. Legal protection of property rights.
First, give full play to the advantages of centralized trial and effectively encourage and ensure scientific and technological innovation.
The court implements the concept that protecting intellectual property rights is to protect innovation, adheres to strict protection, increases judicial protection of intellectual property rights in key core technologies, key fields, and emerging industries, and promotes the development of new productive forces.
Increasing infringement compensation, there are more and more cases of high compensation awards, and punitive damages will be applied in 8 cases in 2023.
The second is to effectively maintain fair competition in the market and help build a unified national market.
While effectively protecting legal monopoly rights such as patents, the courts also perform anti-monopoly and anti-unfair competition judicial duties in accordance with the law.
In many cases, it has been determined that the accused behavior constitutes monopoly, and the judicial interpretation responsible for drafting anti-monopoly civil litigation will be released soon.
The protection of technical secrets has been strengthened, and the damages awarded in the "vanillin" case, the "melamine" case, and the "rubber antioxidant" case have exceeded 100 million yuan.
The third is to coordinate the promotion of domestic rule of law and foreign-related rule of law, and serve high-level opening up to the outside world.
The court adheres to the equal protection of Chinese and foreign rights holders in accordance with the law and has concluded a total of 1,198 foreign-related cases.
In many cases, Chinese and foreign parties have been helped to reach a package settlement, and transnational disputes have been substantively resolved with "Eastern experience".
Actively explore international cutting-edge issues and contribute Chinese wisdom to international intellectual property governance.
The fourth is to continue to deepen reform and innovation and constantly improve the intellectual property litigation mechanism.
The court ensures uniform application of the law through the professional judge conference system and regular publication of adjudication gist and typical cases.
Explore the collaborative trial of patent civil and administrative cases, take the lead in establishing a "national court technical investigation talent pool" and sharing mechanism, establish the country's first technical intellectual property adjudication database, vigorously promote online litigation, and promote the improvement of trial quality and efficiency.