Chinese IP prosecutions up
p2p news / p2pnet: Chinese courts prosecuted more than 3,500 intellectual property cases, up 28% from the year before. And they, "punished 5,336 people, up 30 percent from the previous year, said the Supreme People’s Court," quoted by Agence France-Presse.
Only 5 or 6% of the IPR cases involved foreign companies or foreigners, however, said Jiang Zhipei, chief justice of the intellectual property right tribunal at China’s highest court.
"Oddly enough, the foreign press, the foreign government and foreign lawmakers complain a lot, but very few actually take legal measures in China," AFP has him saying, urging foreign companies "to take their cases to the court".
As long as, " American enterprises provide evidence and sue those who infringed their rights, the Chinese courts will protect them," he said.
Also See:
Agence France-Presse – Chinese courts step up piracy prosecutions, March 10, 2006
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