A WTO panel has issued a split decision in a dispute between the US and China over the enforcement of intellectual property rights by favoring one US argument and shooting down two others. 

Siding with China in two arguments, the panel denies the US argument that China's criminal law system does not provide ample protection to IPRs.   For the third US assertion - Chinese customs rules allow pirated goods to continue distribution rather than being destructed -the panel concluded that there are no specific provisions in Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPs) regarding this, and the US had not done enough to prove that the Chinese policies are so loose as to violate the TRIPs. 

 (China IP News)