New special courts on intellectual property rights (IPR) are expected to be set up in China, targeting to meet the increasing litigations amid the country's boosting innovations.

 

Zhu Xiaodan, governor of south China's Guangdong Province, said that he hopes the Supreme Court would set up the country's first IPR court in Guangdong, where one fourth of China's IPR disputes happen.

 

"The most pressing task in Guangdong's industrial transformation is to enhance enterprises' ability to innovate. Legal justice is crucial to the protection and encouragement of innovation," Zhu said.

 

Zhu made the remarks during a week-long campaign on IPRs held by the Supreme Court in Guangdong on the eve of World Intellectual Property Day on Saturday.

 

It has been a hot topic in the judicial system, and was put into China's key reform plan after the Third Plenum of the 18th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China (CPC).

 

The CPC has vowed to strengthen China's facilitation and protection of intellectual property rights, improve the mechanism to encourage innovation, and explore ways of setting up IPR courts.

 

A four-level court system is applied in the Chinese mainland, consisting of the Supreme Court in Beijing and three tiers of local courts. The country also has special courts dealing with military and maritime cases, both of which date back to decades ago.

 

The establishment of new IPR courts will be a big move in China's legal system reform, and is welcomed by local governments.

Source:Xinhua