China handles 213,000 IPR cases in 2017
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Chinese courts dealt with a total of 213,480 intellectual property rights (IPR) cases in 2017, said Tao Kaiyuan, vice president of the Supreme People's Court (SPC), on Wednesday.

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The number is a 40.4 percent more than in 2016, doubling the number in 2013.

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As of the end of 2017, the SPC had published 36 items of judicial interpretation on IPR, said Tao at a press conference.

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China has more than 300 IPR tribunals, and about 3,000 judges and 2,000 judicial assistants working on IPR.