Recently, Shanghai intellectual property court entrusted WIPO arbitration and mediation Shanghai Center and has successfully mediated an invention patent infringement dispute concerning foreign affairs. It is the first time that Shanghai intellectual property court entrust international organization mediate foreign-related intellectual property disputes.

WIPO arbitration and mediation Shanghai center is the first business organization set up by an international organization arbitration center and approved by the Ministry of Justice. The scale of business includes conducting arbitration and mediation of foreign-related intellectual property dispute cases.

The plaintiff of the case is a multinational enterprise in the laboratory instrument and service industry. It has recognized that the defendant, a technology company, produced a freeze-thawing product used to store bio-medical material infringed on its invention patent right. The plaintiff sues to the court to request the judgment that the defendant can stop infringement and compensate for the loss instantly. The case has been solved smoothly by the WIPO arbitration and mediation Shanghai Center; both parties are satisfied with the result. Furthermore, Shanghai intellectual property court entrusted the center with the first pre-litigation mediation case.

Intellectual property disputes require expertise, especially technological intellectual property, which is complicated in technical terms. More factors need to be considered in foreign-related intellectual property cases; in this way, the mediation difficulty is relatively high. This time’s success in mediation becomes a successful practice of Shanghai intellectual property court docking with WIPO arbitration and mediation Shanghai Center to solve foreign-related intellectual property disputes.