2011 is the tenth year of China's accession to the WTO, and the solemn commitment made ??by China in its accession to the WTO on intellectual property protection has brought a huge change in intellectual property protection system in China. In order to comply with the TRIPS Agreement requirements, before China's accession to the WTO in 2001, the Trademark Law and the Patent Law were amended accordingly: the final decision changed from administrative to judicial.
Beijing First Intermediate People's Court was the first to take up the exclusive jurisdiction of the administrative cases of the granting and maintaining of trademark and patent rights, and became the only first-trial court of the nation to handle such cases.
In the decade, the Beijing First Intermediate People’s Court fully has been performing its sacred duty of the judicial protection of intellectual property rights, playing the leading role of the judicial in intellectual property protection and hearing all types of intellectual property cases fairly and efficiently in accordance with the law. The domestic enterprises become capable of skillfully using judicial means to solve disputes and the foreign enterprises gradually increase the confidence in China's judicial system, all of which are due to the optimization of the Chinese legal environment, and for which the professionalized IP judgment road of Beijing Intermediate People’s Court of a decade laid firm cornerstone.
