On November 9, the Haikou City Intermediate People’s Court, with the Haikou City Market Supervision Administration and the Haikou City Intellectual Property Office, announced the status of judicial protection work carried out by the Haikou Intellectual Property Court since its establishment. The “Haikou Intellectual Property Trial White Paper” and ten major cases of judicial protection of intellectual property rights have been published.
On April 11, 2019, the Supreme People’s Court approved the establishment of the Haikou Intellectual Property Court in the Haikou Intermediate Court to centralize jurisdiction over intellectual property cases across the province. At the same time, the Supreme People’s Court approved the cross-regional jurisdiction of Haikou Qiongshan District People’s Court and Sanya Suburban People’s Court Ordinary first-instance intellectual property cases with a bid value of less than 2 million yuan across the province. On September 26 of the same year, the Haikou Intellectual Property Court was established.
It is understood that from September 2019 to September 2020, the Haikou Intermediate Court, Qiongshan Court, and Suburban Court accepted a total of 1,720 intellectual property cases, and the number of cases received has reached the level before the centralized jurisdiction. From 2016 to August 2019, the total number of intellectual property cases received was 2.2 times of the total number of 775 cases. The number of intellectual property cases accepted in the province has increased significantly. The social influence of Hainan's judicial protection of intellectual property rights has continued to increase, effectively creating a rule of law and internationalization , Facilitated business environment.
According to statistics, civil intellectual property cases accounted for 99.77% of the accepted cases, reflecting the active social and economic activities of the Hainan Free Trade Port during the construction of the Hainan Free Trade Port. The awareness of rights protection of market entities has been enhanced, and the judicial protection of the society is effective. The types of cases accepted are still dominated by intellectual property infringement disputes, which are usually commercial rights protection activities. Among the 1,686 first-instance civil cases accepted by the courts at both levels, copyright infringement accounted for 80.49%, trademark infringement accounted for 10.32%, and patent infringement accounted for 5.87%.
In addition, as the construction of the Hainan Free Trade Port accelerates, the number of foreign-related intellectual property cases has gradually increased. From September 2019 to September 2020, the two-tier courts accepted 29 foreign-related intellectual property cases, and the right holders involved the United Kingdom, South Korea, and Italy. In other countries, more and more multinational companies have begun to choose the Hainan Court as the place for settlement of foreign-related intellectual property disputes, and the level and ability of judicial protection of intellectual property rights in our province have gradually been recognized.
The relevant person in charge of the Haikou Intermediate People's Court stated that the Haikou Intellectual Property Court will focus on the new tasks and requirements of the Hainan Free Trade Port in the next step, innovate work ideas, promote the overall improvement of the level of judicial protection of intellectual property rights, and promote the realization of The development goal of "the transition from an intellectual property court to an intellectual property court" provides a more powerful judicial guarantee for promoting the formation of a legal, international, and convenient business environment in Hainan Free Trade Port.
