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24 Wash. Int'l L.J. 189 (2015)
Supreme People's Court Annual Report on Intellectual Property Cases (2013) (China)

handle is hein.journals/pacrimlp24 and id is 197 raw text is: Compilation 0 2015 Washington International Low Journal Association SUPREME PEOPLE'S COURT ANNUAL REPORT ON INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CASES (2013) (CHINA) Translated by Tong Li, Xiaohan Lou, Zhenan Wang, Qiuwen Xu Abstrac: The Supreme People's Court of China began publishing its Annual Report on Intellectual Property Cases in 2008. The annual reports, published in April of each year, summarize and review new intellectual property cases. This translation includes all 30 cases and 39 legal issues of the 2013 Annual Report. It addresses patent law, trademark law, copyright law, unfair competition, contractual intellectual property rights, liability of intellectual property infringement, and intellectual property litigation procedure and evidence. While China is not a common law country, these cases and guidelines provide lower courts with meaningful insight and direction.t 1. INTRODUCTION In 2013, the Supreme People's Court of China accepted 594 new intellectual property (IP) cases and issued 548 decisions. In comparison, in 2012, the Court accepted 359 IP cases and issued 366 decisions. The characteristics and trends that this report reflects include: (1) The growth in 1P cases resulted in an increase of 65.46% in the accepted number of cases by the Supreme People's Court of China. (2) The increasing net worth and market value of patent technologies resulted in more complex cases. (3) There has been an overall increase in administrative patent cases, and more specifically the proportion of pharmaceutical, electronics, and communication cases has grown. (4) A large number of patent cases involved issues of claim interpretation. (5) The proportion of trademark cases has remained stable, but there has been an increase in the number of cases involving the preemption of trademark registration. (6) There has been a rapid increase in the number of cases involving disputes over the infringement of rights of new plant varieties. (7) The number of copyright cases involving emerging fields, such as software, animation, and applied arts in cultural and creative industries, continues to increase, and many of these cases are correlated with one another.