83.18% IP Civil Case Settlement Rate in the Trial of First Instance in People's Courts of Different Levels

2017/06/21

In 2016, People’s Courts of different levels in the trial of first instance received 136,534 IP civil cases and concluded 131,813 IP civil cases, up 24.82% and 30.09% than 2015 respectively. The rate of IP civil case settlement rate in the trial of first instance is 83.18%, with an increase of 0.52% on a year-on-year basis. At the same time, People’s Courts of different levels in the trial of second instance received 20,793 IP civil cases and concluded 20,334 IP civil cases, up 37.57% and 35.33% than 2015 respectively. 79 IP civil retrial cases has been received with a 31.30% decrease and 85 IP civil retrial cases have been settled with a 25.44% decrease. The Supreme People’s Court received and concluded 369 and 383 IP civil cases, remaining the same level with 2015 basically.