The Supreme People's Court will dispatch eight working groups to local courts for training local clerks to improve the accuracy and efficiency in trying the intellectual property rights (IPR) violation cases.

The information was released by Jiang Zhipei, Chief Judge of the Intellectual Property Court under the Supreme People's Court at an on-going International Forum on Intellectual Property Protection held in Beijing.

Jiang said Chinese courts had accepted an increasingly number of IPR violation cases over recent years. In year of 2004 alone, they handled 12,000 IPR violation cases, up 31.65 percent from the previous year.

"Since China's entry to the World Trade Organization (WTO), more and more IPR violation cases, accepted by the Chinese courts, have involved overseas companies and individuals," said Jiang.

He said some overseas companies complained that China's laws on IPR were inadequate and the country's intellectual property infringement rampant. But they might not know that lots of orders for pirated DVDs and VCDs came from some overseas metropolitans, such as New York.

In a bid to further improve Chinese court's capability of handling IPR violation cases, the Supreme People's Court will open IPR trial training courses to local judges and dispatch eight working groups to local courts for giving trial instructions at spot.

Xing Shengcai, associate chief judge of the Intellectual Property Court disclosed that the Patent Law is undergoing the third time revision, making the law more applicable in future.

Source: Xinhua