BEIJING: Courts in North China’s Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region will cooperate further to better protect intellectual property rights, thereby helping promote the coordinated development of the region, according to local judicial authorities.
The high people’s courts in Beijing, Tianjin and Hebei province signed a framework agreement on Tuesday. According to the agreement, courts from the three locations will collaborate on various IPR issues such as improving the quality of IPR trials, joint investigations, resource information sharing and the development of judicial talent.
“The agreed collaboration is of great significance in efforts to form a judicial escort for developing the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region into a pilot and demonstration zone of Chinese modernization,” said Lin Guanghai, chief judge of the No 3 Civil Adjudication Tribunal, a division that specializes in handling IP cases with the Supreme People’s Court. The signing ceremony was held in Xiong’an New Area, a new economic area set up in Hebei in 2017 to relieve Beijing of functions nonessential to its role as the national capital and to advance the coordinated development of the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region.
Given that the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region boasts advantages in technological innovation and their distribution of IPR-related industries, the Beijing High People’s Court suggested that the courts in the three areas should fully consider the role that intellectual property trials play in stimulating and guaranteeing scientific and technological innovation, according to Ren Xuefeng, deputy head of the court in Beijing. –The Daily Mail-China Daily news exchange item
