White Paper on the Trial of Intellectual Property Cases by Shanghai Courts in 2018
Shanghai High People’s Court
April 22, 2019
V. Influence of IP Trial Kept Increasing through Active International Exchanges and Judicial Publicity
1. A series of publicity activities were elaborately organized for the World Intellectual Property Day on April 26. Shanghai High People’s Court held a press conference and for the first time issued the White Paper on the Trial of Intellectual Property Cases by Shanghai Courts in 2017, White Paper on the Trail of Foreign-related Intellectual Property Case by Shanghai Courts during 2014-2017, and “Ten Major Cases on Judicial Protection of Intellectual Property Rights by Shanghai Courts in 2017, all in bilingual version of Chinese and English. Officials of embassies and consulates in Shanghai, representatives of foreign non-enterprise economic organizations, and numerous domestic and international news media were invited to the press. Intellectual property tribunals of all courts in the city carried out a series of live trials and public sentencing activities. Shanghai Intellectual Property Court and Pudong Court respectively issued their white papers and typical cases on intellectual property trials. Yangpu Court, Xuhui Court and Putuo Court also held discussions and symposiums with relevant universities and enterprises.
2. A mechanism was established for regular exchange and cooperation with universities and colleges. In April 2018, Shanghai High People’s Court and Tongji University signed the Framework Cooperation Agreement on Strengthening Intellectual Property Law Education and Judicial Practice to strengthen theoretical research and support talent training. Over the past year, the two sides had in-depth cooperation in personnel exchange, talent training, research projects, case study, etc. Four platforms have been established for the two sides to enhance the judges’ comprehensive research ability, college students’ practical training, foreign exchange, and high-quality resource sharing.
3. Foreign exchange activities were actively organized. Shanghai High People’s Court held a symposium on legal protection of trade secrets in November 2018, at which Professor Martin Senftleben of VU University Amsterdam’s Law and Internet Center made a special speech on Current Situation and Development Trend of Legal Protection of Trade Secrets in EU. In 2018, Shanghai High People’s Court and Shanghai Intellectual Property Court received 16 groups of nearly 300 people, including judge of the Federal Court of Justice of Germany, Consul of Consulate General of the United States in Shanghai, Chief Representative of US-China Business Council in Shanghai, Consul of the Consulate General of the Republic of Korea (ROK) in Shanghai, and participants of Japan-China Intellectual Property Exchange Meeting of the Association for the Promotion of International Trade, Japan.
photo from: Shanghai High People's Court
