The Supreme People's Court (SPC), April 20, issued the White Paper on Intellectual Property Judicial Protection by Chinese Courts in 2009, which is the first time SPC publishes such annual report on IPR judicial protection. As indicated in the paper, from 1985 to 2009, the people's courts had rendered civil decisions for 166,408 IP-related cases, concluded 6,387 IP-related administrative cases of first instance, and decided 14,509 IP-related criminal cases from 1997 to 2009.

The paper is a summation of 2009 IPR judicial protection in China on top of a brief introduction of IPR judicial protection in China in the last 30 years. The paper will be available, every year, in both Chinese and English version henceforth, according to a SPC principal.  

(China IP News)