According to relevant national laws and regulations, county-level intellectual property rights are administered by the county press and publication bureau and prosecuted in county-level courts. Applications for national unification shall be handled in the Patent Office, Copyright Bureau and Trademark Office. However, at present, the county-level administrative and court personnel are insufficient and lack of professional talents, which are generally handed over to the prefecture-level administrative or court management.
The first intellectual property court in China is in Beijing. 201165438 On June 6, 2004, Beijing Intellectual Property Court, the first intellectual property court in China, officially performed its statutory duties, which marked an important step in the judicial system reform deployed by the Third and Fourth Plenary Sessions of the 18th CPC Central Committee. The newly established Beijing Intellectual Property Court has four trial courts and technical investigation rooms, two judicial auxiliary institutions of bailiffs and 1 comprehensive administrative institutions, which have centralized jurisdiction over intellectual property civil and administrative cases that were originally under the jurisdiction of the Beijing Intermediate People's Court.