Beijing IP Court Releases Debut Statistics on Cases Accepted & Concluded
Recently, Beijing Intellectual Property Court, which started operation on 6 November 2014, has released statistics on cases it accepted and concluded during the period from its date of inception until 20 March 2015.
During its initial four-odd months of operation, the court accepted 2,400 cases and concluded 587 cases. A breakdown on the number of cases accepted and concluded during the period is as follows:
|
Proceeding
|
Types of IP Cases
|
No. of Cases Accepted
|
No. of Cases Concluded
|
|
First instance
|
Patent cases
|
505
|
58
|
|
Trademark cases
|
1,463
|
280
|
|
|
Copyright cases
|
55
|
7
|
|
|
Others
(including technology contract and unfair competition cases)
|
35
|
1
|
|
|
Total
|
2,058
|
346
|
|
|
Second instance
|
Patent cases
|
3
|
2
|
|
Trademark cases
|
31
|
18
|
|
|
Copyright cases
|
259
|
197
|
|
|
Others
(including technology contract and unfair competition cases)
|
49
|
24
|
|
|
Total
|
342
|
241
|
For cases accepted by the court during the period, trademark cases accounted for the highest proportion of 71% among the first instances, whereas copyright cases accounted for the highest proportion of 76% among the second instances.
During the period an overall close rate of 24.5% was achieved by the court, with the percentage of first instances and second instances concluded being 16.8% and 70.5% respectively.
