Chinese courts accepted and heard 11,390 first-instance civil intellectual property rights (IPR) violation cases from January to October, up 27.98 percent from the same period last year.

Chinese courts also accepted 506 first-instance administrative cases on IPR violation during the first ten months of the year, up 10.48 percent from the same period last year.

The figures were released from a forum on IPR violation trials held here on Monday.

Cao Jianming, vice president of the Supreme People's Court, said at the forum that since Chinese courts launched a national crackdown on IPR violations, the number of IPR violation cases accepted by courts has risen constantly and the quality of PR violation trials has improved.

In order to solve the problems emerging in law applications when trying the IPR violation cases, the Supreme People's Court was drafting five judicial interpretations concerning different aspects of IPR violations, such as unfair competition, IPR infringement on music TV and infringement upon new plant varieties, Cao said.

Source: Xinhua