China is becoming an arena of significant importance where
companies are taking advantage of patent portfolios against
competitors. According to "2012 Intellectual Property Rights
Protection in China" issued by State Intellectual Property
Office of China, in 2012, local people's courts around China
accepted 9,680 patent civil cases, with year-on-year increase of
23.80%.
In this circumstance, we have been receiving more and more
questions regarding patent infringement lawsuit in China. On one
hand, some questions relate to remedies the Plaintiff may seek
during the patent litigation. On the other hand, some questions
relate to countermeasures the Defendant may take to withstand the
attacks of the Plaintiff. Some of the questions include: Whether
injunctions can be enforced before an appeal has concluded? Whether
there is any preliminary injunction procedure in China to permit
Plaintiff to enforce an injunction and shut down Defendant's
work before the conclusion of an appeal? What is the timing between
any verdict of infringement and a patentee's ultimate ability
to enforce an injunction? How often Defendants with legitimate
businesses are enjoined if they are found to infringe, as opposed
to counterfeiters or other parties who are not likely able to
satisfy a judgment?
To resolve the above questions, we produce this article.
Particularly, we outline in this article all the possible remedies
Plaintiff could seek against Defendant before the people's
court; analyze governing laws, judicial interpretations, and
opinion of local appellate court (in this article, we take High
People's Court in Jiangsu Province as example) on these
remedies; and finally comment on countermeasures Defendant could
adopt to defeat all these remedies. In the end of the article, we
will provide answers to the above questions.
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