This June is said to the second anniversary for China since the implementation of "The Outline of National Intellectual Property (IP) Strategy". In two years, the legislative bodies has done much to revise or formulate the relevant IP laws, regulation or judicial interpretations, which provided a further guidance for the enforcement officials or judicial judges in better enforcing the IP rights. The statistics show that in 2009, 1624 cases of IP infringement were investigated and settled by the public security organs. The procuratorial organs totally approved the arrests of 2,119 suspects in 1,256 IP infringing cases; the local courts across the country concluded 30,509 IP civil cases as the first instance, and 3,660 IP related criminal cases in which 5,832 suspects were found guilty. With regard to the trademark cases, AICs at different level investigated and settled 51,000 cases. The customs detained more than 65,000 batches of goods suspected of infringement.
