At the press conference held by the Supreme People's Court on November 3, Xi Xiaoming, Vice President of the Supreme People's Court announces the beginning of the month of strengthening IPR judicial protection program among the courts nationwide with a theme of "judicially protecting IPRs and stimulating innovation."

The program is an important measure for the people's courts to deeply study and practice the Scientific Outlook on Development and provide solid judicial guarantee for constructing an innovative country, a concrete reflection of actively serving the overall situation of the CPC and the Government, as well as an important activity to check the practices of "studying and discussing in large scale" program and adhering to the guiding thought of "giving priority to the cause of the CPC, people's interests and Constitutions and laws."

During the month of IPR judicial protection program, the Supreme People's Court, various higher people's courts, and the intermediate and grassroots people's courts with certain amounts of IPR-related cases will respectively hear some case with important social influences in a centralized manner, and invite representative personnel and social publics such as deputies to the people's congress and members of Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference to witness the trials. Meanwhile, conferences of representative personnel will be held to solicit their opinions and suggestion on people's courts' work of strengthening the trial of IPR-related case. People's courts of various levels will adjudicate a batch of IPR-related cases in a centralized manner.

The overall plan for the IPR judicial protection month includes: Using one month of November this year, people's courts will demonstrate the important achievements in IPR judicial protection and their important functions through holding press conferences, holding public hearings in centralized manners and soliciting opinions, publicizing typical cases, adjudicating cases in centralized manners and issuing related measures, pragmatically play and energetically publicize the leading roles of IPR judicial protection, promote the awareness of the whole society of protecting IPRs according to law and stimulating and protecting independent innovation.

In June this year, the State Council issues the Compendium on China National IP Strategy, pointing out clearly that measures should be taken to bring the leading roles of the courts in protecting IPRs into full play and pragmatically strengthen the efforts of IPR judicial protection. In order to pragmatically implement the deployments related to the people's courts, improve the awareness of the whole society of IPR protection and boost the people's courts' work of IPR hearing into a new height, the Supreme People's Court decides to launch the month of strengthening IPR judicial protection program among the courts nationwide with a theme of "judicially protecting IPRs and stimulating innovation."