China Handles 213,000 IPR Cases in 2017

2018/03/06

According to the statistics of the Supreme People's Court (SPC) on February 28, Chinese courts dealt with a total of 213,480 intellectual property rights (IPR) cases in 2017. The number is a 40.4 percent more than in 2016, doubling the number in 2013. As of the end of 2017, the SPC had published 36 items of judicial interpretation on IPR. China has more than 300 IPR tribunals, and about 3,000 judges and 2,000 judicial assistants working on IPR.

Source: Xinhua