Equal Protection Offered To Parties From Home, Abroad

The Beijing Intellectual Property Court is becoming one of the world's preferred destinations for IP-related lawsuits because it provides equal protection for litigants from home and abroad and makes high-quality rulings, a court official said.

Du Changhui, vice-president of the court, said that "foreign litigants coming to us to solve disputes is a recognition of our justice system and also means our judicial credibility is being improved worldwide".

Since the court was established in 2014, it has even handled several cases between foreign parties, including a dispute between two technology giants from the United States-Qualcomm and Apple-over an invention patent, and a lawsuit between Apple and Nagra, a manufacturer of audio-recording devices based in Switzerland, Du said.