China News recently reported on new systems put in place by the Chinese courts to increase public awareness of complicated court proceedings and to expedite the resolution of disputes through the courts.
The article also reports some encouraging statistics that reflect on the rule of law in China. It cites a March 2008 State Supreme Court work report that China's courts handled almost 32 million cases from 2003 through 2007. That's up 1.6% over the previous four-year period (1998-2002).
The Shanghai courts saw a much larger increase in their case loads, however, which were up 10% during the same time period. This finding about the Shanghai courts is consistent with observations by my colleagues in the Licensing Executives Society and the American Bar Association's China Committee that courts in certain Chinese cities, Shanghai among them, are becoming more educated as to intellectual property rights and more reliable as fora for the resolution of intellectual property disputes.
To read the China News article, click here. For an excellent list of China resources compiled by the ABA's China Committee, click here.
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