BEIJING, April 21 (Xinhua) -- Chinese courts have concluded 475,853 intellectual property rights (IPR) cases in 2019, up 48.87 percent year on year, a senior justice said Tuesday.
Over the past year, a total of 481,793 IPR cases of various types have been received by courts across the country, 44.16 percent higher than the previous year, Jiang Bixin, vice president of the Supreme People's Court, said at a press conference.
The overall quality of IPR has been improved in 2019, with a number of administrative cases of patent authorization and confirmation with great social influence concluded and malicious applications for trademark registration contained in accordance with the law, Jiang said.