How many intellectual property courts are there?

Generally speaking, the types and levels of courts are composed of specialized courts, such as the Supreme Court, local courts at all levels and military courts. Among them, local courts at all levels are divided into grass-roots courts, intermediate courts and high courts. On the level, there are four levels: grass-roots courts (county level), intermediate courts (prefecture level), provincial high courts (provincial level) and the Supreme Court.

Specific to the category, it is the category of specialized courts. At present, the main specialized courts include military courts, maritime courts, railway transport courts and forest courts.

Among them, military courts are divided into three levels: grass-roots military courts, military courts of major military regions and services, and military courts of China People's Liberation Army.

Maritime courts are located in Guangzhou, Shanghai, Wuhan, Qingdao, Tianjin, Dalian and other port cities.

The railway transport courts are divided into two levels: the highest railway transport courts located in railway bureaus and the grass-roots railway transport courts located in railway management sub-bureaus.

Forest courts mainly include grass-roots courts: forest people's court, forest intermediate court, forestry court of intermediate court and forestry court of high court.

The first intellectual property court in China is in Beijing. The 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 is located at Changhua Road 18, Haidian District, Beijing. It consists of four trial courts, technical investigation rooms and judicial police teams, two judicial auxiliary institutions and 1 comprehensive administrative institutions. Centralized jurisdiction over intellectual property civil and administrative cases originally under the jurisdiction of Beijing Intermediate People's Court. Set up an intellectual property court. The first is the need to promote the implementation of the national innovation-driven development strategy; Second, it is necessary to strengthen the judicial protection of intellectual property rights; The third is the need to improve the level of intellectual property examination and approval. According to the needs of trial work, the trial level of intellectual property courts in Beijing, Shanghai and Guangzhou is the same as that of local intermediate people's courts. After the establishment of the Intellectual Property Court, it mainly tried all kinds of civil and administrative cases of intellectual property rights such as patents, new plant varieties, layout design of integrated circuits and technical secrets, taking into account other civil and administrative cases of intellectual property rights. Compared with other high courts, the intellectual property high court has a greater degree of independence. It has a special chief judge, judicial conference and administrative staff to solve judicial and administrative problems through the judicial conference of the Intellectual Property High Court, which is independent of the Tokyo High Court. The High Court of Intellectual Property is a court specialized in handling intellectual property cases, which was established according to the specific provisions of the Organic Law of the Court. Unlike other high courts, the Intellectual Property High Court handles all intellectual property cases, including those under the exclusive jurisdiction of the Tokyo High Court, as well as cases of infringement of copyright or commercial interests due to unfair competition. At the same time, the Intellectual Property High Court was granted specific powers to handle judicial and administrative affairs. The Intellectual Property High Court is supervised by the Supreme Court in judicial administration. In accordance with the spirit of the reform of the central judicial system, the Beijing Intellectual Property Court highlights the main position of the presiding judge and the collegial panel, and strives to "let the judge try and be responsible for it".

Legal basis: decision of NPC Standing Committee on amending the Patent Law of People's Republic of China (PRC).

Article 60 is renumbered as Article 57 and amended as: "The exploitation of a patent without the permission of the patentee is an infringement of the patent right. In case of any dispute, the parties concerned shall settle it through consultation; Unwilling to negotiate or failing to do so, the patentee or interested party may bring a suit in a people's court or request the administrative department for patent affairs to handle it. When the administrative department for patent affairs finds that the infringement is established, it may order the infringer to stop the infringement immediately. If a party refuses to accept the decision, he may bring a lawsuit to the people's court in accordance with the Administrative Procedure Law of the People's Republic of China within 15 days from the date of receiving the notice of handling. If the infringer fails to prosecute and stop the infringement upon expiration of the time limit, the administrative department for patent affairs may apply to the people's court for compulsory execution. At the request of the parties concerned, the administrative department for patent affairs may mediate the amount of compensation for patent infringement; If mediation fails, the parties may bring a lawsuit to the people's court in accordance with the Civil Procedure Law of People's Republic of China (PRC). " Where a patent infringement dispute involves an invention patent of a new product manufacturing method, the unit or individual that manufactures the same product shall provide proof that its product manufacturing method is different from the patented method; Where a patent for utility model is involved, the people's court or the administrative department for patent affairs may require the patentee to issue a search report made by the patent administrative department of the State Council. "