On November 8, as arranged by Shanghai High People’s
Court for the inspection activity of “Visiting Courts”, 14 deputies to the
National People’s Congress and deputies to Shanghai Municipal People’s Congress
from delegations of Huangpu District, Qingpu District, Songjiang District and
Putuo District visited Shanghai No.3 Intermediate People’s Court (Shanghai Intellectual
Property Court) for inspection. These deputies paid a visit to tribunals, File Reading
Room, 12368 Platform, Lawsuit Service Center, Meditation Room, etc., and spoke
highly of the moves for the convenience of the people such as filing list,
lawsuit guide, availability of legal provisions for reading and so forth which
were considered to reflect the Court’s idea of judicature for the people embodied
by “transposition thinking” and “bringing convenience for the people”. Wang
Qiuliang, Member of Party Leadership Group of Shanghai High People’s Court,
Secretary of the Party Leadership Group and President of Shanghai No.3
Intermediate People’s Court (Shanghai Intellectual Property Court) presided
over the seminar. Mao Ronghua, Member of Party Leadership Group and Vice
President of Shanghai High People’s Court, the leading group members of Shanghai
No.3 Intermediate People’s Court (Shanghai Intellectual Property Court), heads
of the relevant functional departments of Shanghai High People’s Court and
heads of all departments of Shanghai No.3 Intermediate People’s Court (Shanghai
Intellectual Property Court) attended the seminar. Participants watched a feature
about the works of Shanghai courts. Vice President Mao Ronghua briefed on key works
of all courts in Shanghai this year from the aspects of case handling & law
enforcement, serving the overall situation and judicial reform, and introduced
seven tasks to which all courts in Shanghai must attach emphasis in 2017.
President Wang Qiuliang reported the reforms and development of Shanghai No.3
Intermediate People’s Court (Shanghai Intellectual Property Court) since its
foundation and highlighted the Court’s duty performance and serving the overall
situation focusing on “cross” and “profession”, innovative development and
promotion of reform focusing on “feature” and improvement of influence and
credibility focusing on “proficiency”. The deputies highly appreciated the
works of the courts in Shanghai and Shanghai No.3 Intermediate People’s Court (Shanghai
Intellectual Property Court), considered such works innovative and effective,
and put forward opinions and suggestions on such issues as implementation of
judge responsibility system, alleviation of the contradictions between
excessive cases and lack of personnel, strengthening protection of intellectual
properties, upgrading the positioning of courts crossing administrative regions
and Shanghai Intellectual Property Court. Present Wang Qiuliang, Vice President
Mao Ronghua and Vice President of Shanghai Intellectual Property Court Li
Shulan answered the issues which the deputies were concerned about.