11/11/2014

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Proposed Legislation[1]

Provisions of Supreme People's Court on Certain Issues Related to Trial of Administrative Cases
Involving Trademark Licensing right (Draft for Public Comment) released

Courts and Cases
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Shanghai rules on a case involving illegal sale of pirated international standards

Adopted Legislation [1][1]
SPC releases the Provisions of Supreme People's Court on Case Jurisdiction of Intellectual Property
Courts in Beijing, Shanghai, and Guangzhou

NEWS
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Beijing Intellectual Property Court to be established in early November

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Proposed Legislation[1]

Provisions of Supreme People's Court on Certain Issues Related to Trial of Administrative

Cases Involving Trademark Licensing right (Draft for Public Comment) released[Supreme People's Court ]...The Provisions of Supreme People's Court on Certain Issues Related to Trial of Administrative Cases
Involving Trademark Licensing right (Draft for Public Comment) was released at the official website ofSupreme People's Court and chinacourt.org to seek public comments and suggestions. The period forcomment submission is one month, till November 15, 2014. The Draft for Comment consists of 29
articles. Administrative cases involving trademark licensing right refer to cases filed by counterparts orinterested parties with the people's court due to dissatisfaction with specific administrative acts ofTrademark Review and Adjudication Board under State Administration for Industry and Commercesuch as trademark rejection review, trademark registration denial review, etc. The people's court should
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determine the scope of review as to whether or not the specific administrative act involving trademark
licensing right is lawful based on the litigation request and grounds of the parties concerned. If noallegation is made in litigation regarding the facts alleged by the parties concerned during the review
stage, but the people's court discovers that the determination of Trademark Review and Adjudication
Board is obviously erroneous, the people's court may, upon listening to the statements of parties
concerned, make a judgment on the erroneous acts.
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Courts and Cases[1]

Shanghai rules on a case involving illegal sale of pirated international standards[National Copyright Administration]...Yangpu People's Court in Shanghai rendered the first-instance judgment regarding the case involving
Wang and others in Shanghai selling pirated ISO standards through the Internet, and the defendant wassentenced to a three-year suspended prison sentence and was subject to a penalty of RMB 180,000.
As ascertained by the court, the defendant has, from October 2010, set up five websites and hasclassified ISO, IEC and other international standards and uploaded the same to the website for sale. The
purchaser pays the defendant through the Paypal account registered or controlled by the defendant andreceived the documents of international standards from the defendant through mails. The court was ofthe opinion that the defendant has reproduced the copyrighted products without the consent of thecopyright owner for seeking profit and the case was of a serious nature, which has constituted the crimeof copyright infringement. The defendant did not say at court whether or not to file an appeal.
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Adopted Legislation[1]

SPC releases the Provisions of Supreme People's Court on Case Jurisdiction of Intellectual

Property Courts in Beijing, Shanghai, and Guangzhou[Chinacourt.org]...Supreme People's Court (SPC) held a press release on November 3, 2014, to issue the Provisions ofSupreme People's Court on Case Jurisdiction of Intellectual Property Courts in Beijing, Shanghai, andGuangzhou (Fa [2014] No. 267, hereinafter referred to as the "Provisions"), and brief the next-stepwork arrangements of SPC on strengthening IPR protection. The Provisions consists of 8 articles,
mainly covering case jurisdiction and level of trial relationship of intellectual property courts, including
first-instance jurisdiction, cross-regional jurisdiction, proprietary jurisdiction, second-instancejurisdiction, appeal jurisdiction, and handling of unclosed cases.
According to the Provisions, intellectual property courts should have jurisdiction over the following
first-instance cases in their respective municipal area: civil and administrative cases involving patent,
new varieties of plants, layout designs of integrated circuit, technical know-how, and computer
software; administrative cases filed against administrative acts committed by State Council
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departments and local people's government at or above the county level that involve copyright,
trademark, unfair competition; and civil cases involving recognition of well-known trademarks. Beijing
Intellectual Property Court will have jurisdiction over the following first-instance administrative cases:
dissatisfaction with the rulings or decisions made by State Council departments concerning
patent ,trademark, new varieties of plants, layout designs of integrated circuit and other intellectualproperty; dissatisfaction with the judgments made by State Council departments on compulsory
licensing or royalties or remunerations for compulsory licensing made by the State council departments
concerning patent , new varieties of plants, or layout designs of integrated circuit; dissatisfaction withthe other administrative acts of State Council departments concerning IPR licensing right. It is madeclear in the Provisions that appeal cases brought by parties concerned against the first-instance civil andadministrative judgments and rulings made by grassroots court concerning copyright, trademark,technical contract, unfair competition, and other IPR should be tried by the municipal intellectualproperty court. The cases brought by parties concerned against first-instance judgments and rulings
made by an intellectual property court and cases filed with the superior court for reconsideration shouldbe tried by the intellectual property division of the municipal high people's court where the intellectualproperty court is located.
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News[1]

Beijing Intellectual Property Court to be established in early November[National Copyright Administration]...Beijing High People's Court held a press release on trial of cases related to patent and trademark
licensing right, where it was announced that Beijing Intellectual Property Court will be established inearly November. The selection of site for the court has been completed, and judge selection is underway. Technical investigators will also be hired, whose selection, appointment, position and function arebeing discussed and drafted by Supreme People's Court.
It is learnt that after Beijing Intellectual Property Court is established, the intermediate people's courts
in Beijing will no longer accept IPR related cases. However, it will not affect the acceptance of IPR
related civil cases involving small amount of subject matter by the grassroots people's courts. The
appeal court for the Beijing Intellectual Property Court will be Beijing High People's Court.
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