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Supreme People's Court Orders Full-compensation Principle in All IPR Cases

"Courts should fully apply logical reasoning and everyday life experiences, and comprehensively and objectively examine the evidence for calculating the amount of compensation," SPC vice-president Cao Jianming told a national work conference on IPR trials in Jinan on February 20, 2008, according to the China Daily.

I don't know if the order or encourgagement to reason logically can have meaningful results. I think this has to be taught during law school and afterwards during the education permanente necessary for every lawyer and judge. But it is clear that the Supreme People's Court wants the judges to take everything into account and be not too formalistic.

The compensation calculated in the case Yamaha versus Zhejiang Huatian is described as a model. Read more about the Yamaha case of last year here.

Read the article 'New rules on payouts in IPR cases' of the China Daily via China.org.cn, read here. Head tip to Jeff Roberts of CIPP's "IP News This Week", your 5-minute report of the latest IP news from around the world, read here.

Full post as published by IP Dragon on February 26, 2008 (boomark / email).