Date analysis of the intellectual property system of law enforcement and case handling 2015
发布时间：2016.04.12
On January 18th 2016, the SIPO announced the Date analysis of the IP system of law enforcement and case handling 2015, specific information are as follows:
First, Chinese government has strengthened its efforts to combat patent infringements in the past year, and 35,844 administrative law enforcement cases on patents were handled, up 46.4%. Among which 14,607 (14,202 were patent infringements)were patent disputes and 21,237 were patent counterfeit cases, up 77.7% and 30.6% respectively.
It’s worth noting that this figure marked a 5th year of consecutive growth. Numbers show that the annual administrative law enforcement cases on IPR increased by 81.4% and 87,000 cases were concluded during the 12th “Five-Year Plan’period in total, 9.8 times the cases handled than prior planned schedule.
Second,in 2015, IPR system nationwide have strengthened efforts to carry out patent administrative law enforcement. 28 out of 31 provinces, autonomous regions and municipalities, have handled more administrative law enforcement cases than the last year.
Third,it’s worth noting that regional IP offices have played crucial roles in advancing patent administrative law enforcements. Numbers show that, in 2015, IP offices under SIPO nationwide have handled 8,744 patent infringement cases directly, representing 61.6% of the total, up 88.3%.
Fourth, the case structure has been further optimized. The proportion of patent disputes and patent counterfeit cases is 1:1.45, compare to the 1:1.98 of 2014 and 1:1.21 of 2013,the case structure has been optimized.
Fifth, the efficiency has been improved. Take the year of 2015 as an example, 93.2% of the disputes have been concluded, up 6.2%.
Late but not the least, the enforcement on important areas has been improved. 7,644 patent disputes in e-commerce and 2,743 cases involving exhibition have been concluded, representing 1/4 of the total.