The Higher People's Court of Beijing released suggestion on implementing "The Supreme People's Court (SPC) formulation on tasking jurisdictions of patent and trademark right grant  and determination cases". It clarified that IPR tribunals of the First Intermediate People's Court of Beijing would have the temporarily exclusive jurisdiction of IPR administrative cases with the nature of right grand and determination for patent, trademark and layout design of integrated circuit, that of the Second Intermediate People's court of Beijing would hear the cases concerning for new variety of plant. Besides, the Beijing Higher  Court would hear the cases when parties brought cases to the court. The decision has now become effective.

According to the principal of the Beijing Higher Court, the IPR grand and determination administrative cases are special kind of cases under exclusive jurisdiction of Beijing court. In order to execute the State IP Strategy, SPC allocated this kind of cases to the two intermediate courts and high court in Beijing.

(China IP News)