A research project about the study on issues concerning the establishment of intellectual property (IP) courts in China was assessed on Apr 12 by an expert panel.

The study is an annual major research topic of the national rule of law and legal theory research project led by the Ministry of Justice. Tao Kaiyuan, vice-president of the Supreme People’s Court (SPC) was the host of the research project and delivered a speech on the panel.

Tao said that it is meaningful to review and conclude the major fruits and experience since the foundation of the IP courts and to deeply analyze the courts’ problems in order to implement the national IP and innovation-driven development strategies and to build an IP trial system with Chinese characteristics.

The study of IP courts should be based on the situation of China’s IP trials, learn from foreign experience, comprehensively consider conditions of national economy, society and legislation and advise on improving China’s IP court system, she said.

Tao urged that the research group should comb the suggestions of the expert panel, amend the research report as soon as possible to meet the final acceptance criteria and transform the research into actual fruitful outcomes.

Five experts on the panel from judicial administrations, colleges and universities affirmed the theoretical value of the research topic, as well as its practical and academic significance. They also advised as to its amendment.