Haikou, January 5 (Xinhua): A new Intellectual Property Court (IP) based on the island of Hainan from South China that opened for operations on Monday, according to the local authorities. P>
Name of HAINAN Free-Comercio port, the new court covers civil, administrative and criminal cases related to IP in the province, such as patent-related, secret Technicians, software computer, new varieties of plants and designs of integrated circuit design. p>
The scope of your jurisdiction is different from that of the current IP courts in Beijing, Shanghai and Guangzhou, which only listens to civil and administrative cases. p>
A draft decision to establish the Court was presented last month to a session of the Standing Committee of the National Popular Congress. P>
The Court is expected to improve the general mechanism of the intellectual's own judicial protection and others explore judicial reforms, in accordance with the draft decision. EndItem p>
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