Source: China Daily

An intellectual property judicial system covering the whole country will be established by the end of 2020, according to a national judicial conference held in Qingdao recently. Chinese courts nationwide have reformed and improved the IP judiciary protection system over the past five years. Beijing, Shanghai and Guangzhou set up specialized IP courts in late 2014 while another 16 cities, including Nanjing and Wuhan, have set up IP divisions in their courts that had cross-regional jurisdiction over technical cases since the beginning of 2017.