In 2008, China laid down some basic guidelines for IP protection
and a procedure for establishing centralized jurisdiction over some
hi-tech cases, particularly patent litigation. Since, the issuance
of the IP strategy, there has been lot of developments made to the
Chinese IP judicial system including the establishment of
specialized IP courts in late 2014 in Beijing, Shanghai and
Guangzhou. In early 2017, China has established four new
specialized IP tribunals in Nanjing, Suzhou, Chengdu and Wuhan as a
step towards protection of Intellectual Property in China. The
three specialized IP courts are progressively aggressive in terms
of granting provisional measures, awarding increasingly higher
damages, taking stricter judicial review of administrative
decisions, piloting a precedent system etc. There has been intense
discussions on establishing a national IP appellate court in China
since the opening of specialized IP courts in 2014. China decided
to carry out number of
