Recently, the Supreme People's Court issued the Opinions on Comprehensively Strengthening Judicial Protection of Intellectual Property Rights.
The Opinions put forward a series of measures to reduce the cost of obligees in litigations, shorten the litigation period, increase compensation for damages and alleviate the difficulties of parties concerned in presenting evidence, in order to practically strengthen the actual effect of judicial protection.
The Opinions also requires improving the rules for the distribution of evidential burden, the system of obstacle removal for evidence presentation and the system of witness appearing in court to testify, expanding the channels for collecting electronic data evidence, legally supporting the application of parties concerned for perpetuation of evidence and for investigation and evidence collection; increasing compensation for serious infringement of IPRs, legally confiscating and disposing fake or pirated commodities and the materials and tools mainly used for infringement, etc.
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