Shanghai IP Arbitration Court is established on October 29. It is responsible for dealing with the arbitration cases of IP contract disputes with the aim of standing in Shanghai, serving the Yangtze River delta and facing the whole country and adapting to the development requirements of the IP cooperation, transformation and license in the foreign and domestic markets.

Currently, with the continuous growth of IPRs and constant strengthening of IP consciousness, the number of corresponding IP-related dispute cases also grows prominently. It is an important link of maintaining fair competition to improve the capacity and efficiency of dealing with these disputes. According to Xu Qiang, Director of Shanghai Arbitration Commission, compared with the measures of dealing with other kind of disputes such as lawsuit, arbitration has become the popular dispute resolving channel universally selected in developed countries in Europe and the United States because of its characteristics of filing by experts, first award being final and binding, easy to access, maintaining secrecy for persons involved and no restriction of region jurisdiction.

Chen Zhixing, Director of Shanghai IP Administration says that his administration actively supports Shanghai IP Arbitration Court, and by consulting with Shanghai Arbitration Committee, jointly promotes the establishment of the court. In some previous foreign-related IP dispute cases, Chinese parties do not understand arbitration application and let foreign parties to choose foreign IP arbitration organizations to solve disputes, putting barriers to the IPR protection of Chinese enterprises and institutions.

As a branch of Shanghai Arbitration Commission, Shanghai IP Arbitration Court is responsible for dealing with the arbitration case of IP contract disputes with the aim of standing in Shanghai, serving the Yangtze River delta and facing the whole country and adapting to the development requirements of the IP cooperation, transformation and license in the foreign and domestic markets. Shanghai IP Arbitration Court currently has 24 expert consultants and 61 arbitrators, mainly experts in universities, administrative officials from governmental departments, lawyers and veteran judges with abundant practicing experience and comparatively higher levels of handling cases.