Rating Jurisdiction Standards for IP Civil Cases to Be Adjusted

In order to better implementing the national IP strategy, the Supreme People's Court issued the Notice on Adjusting the Jurisdiction of Courts across China in Intellectual Property Civil Cases and revised the jurisdiction standard. Supreme People's Court will implement the newly adjusted rating jurisdiction standard in intellectual property (IP) related civil cases starting February 1, 2010.

Based on the Notice, the IP related civil cases with the litigation object greater than 0.2 billion yuan, the litigation object greater than 0.1 billion and one party of the case outside the jurisdiction of the court, or any foreign related, Hong Kong related or Macao related civil cases are under the jurisdiction of the high courts. Any IP related civil cases with lower litigation object belong to the intermediate people’s court …

http://www.sipo.gov.cn/sipo_English/news/iprspecial/201002/ t20100201_489166.html

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