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In total, 39,913
IPR cases, involving 6.3 billion yuan ($951 million), were heard in
Chinese courts between January and November - a year-on-year jump of
64 percent, according to the Supreme People's Court (SPC).
Among the cases,
23,304 involved copyright infringement, 5,273 were connected to
patent infringement and 7,617 trademark infringement. Patent and
trademark infringements accounted for the majority of IPR cases
involving multinational companies.
The number of intellectual property rights (IPR) trials involving foreign companies is on the rise in China as the country cracks down on violations. A total of 1,057 foreign-related IPR infringement cases were handled by Chinese courts in the first 11 months of 2010, and most of those IPR cases involved multinational companies in China. According to media reports, multinational giants including BMW, Schneider Electric, Microsoft Group, HP, Sony, Ctrip.com and Pfizer have all been involved in IPR cases in China. Statistics from the SPC suggest that about half of foreign-related IPR cases were won by foreign firms. The Beijing No 1 Intermediate People's Court said in early December that the claims of foreign firms were given support or partial support in about 55.2 percent of the 2,691 foreign-related IPR cases handled by the court between 2006 and October 2010. < back >
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