From May 29 to 30, the International Judicial Symposium on Intellectual Property, jointly organized by the Supreme People’s Court of the People’s Republic of China and the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO), was held in Hangzhou, Zhejiang Province. Tao Kaiyuan, Justice of the Supreme People’s Court (Second Class) and Vice President of the Supreme People’s Court, Marco Alemann, Assistant Director General of WIPO, and Li Zhanguo, Justice of the Supreme People’s Court (Second Class) and President of the Zhejiang High People’s Court, attended the opening ceremony and delivered speeches.
Participants included representatives of WIPO, judges from the Unified Patent Court, and judges, law-enforcement officials, scholars, and diplomatic envoys from Singapore, the United Kingdom, the Republic of Korea, Malaysia, Australia, Thailand, the United States, and China.
Tao Kaiyuan stated that Chinese courts adhere to strict intellectual property protection, focusing on “fairness and efficiency,” improving adjudication rules, unifying the application of law, and deepening reform and innovation to continuously improve judicial protection mechanisms for intellectual property. Chinese courts uphold equal protection of the legitimate rights and interests of both domestic and foreign right holders, adjudicate foreign-related intellectual property cases impartially in accordance with law, and strive to create a market-oriented, law-based, and internationalized business environment. Looking ahead, Chinese courts are willing to work together with WIPO and judicial counterparts around the world to actively participate in global intellectual property governance within the WIPO framework, further strengthen exchanges and cooperation, and contribute Chinese wisdom to the healthy development of intellectual property protection.
Xi Jianlin, President of the Shanghai Intellectual Property Court, and Liu Junhua, Vice President of the Court, were invited to attend the symposium and delivered presentations on the topics of “Specialized Intellectual Property Courts” and “Adjudication of Trade Secret Cases,” respectively. Participants also discussed frontier issues in intellectual property, including big data, artificial intelligence, trade secrets, and specialized courts.
