Courts in Shanghai took 1,757 IP civil cases in 2008 and concluded 1,634, up 43.1% and 33.2% respectively.  Among them, some 600 first instance cases related to IP disputes on the Internet, representing 40% of all first instance cases.  Some 231 cases involved foreign, Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwanese parties, accounting for 15.2% of all cases. 2013-07-17