A few days ago, Ministry of Commerce of China released that the WTO has made a ruling on the IPR disputes between China and USA. Of the three appeals filed by the US government against China, WTO only supported one of them. China beat USA by 2-1.
It was in 2007 that the US government filed a complaint with the WTO against China with three claims, i.e. the discrepancy between the Chinese IP-related laws and regulations and China’s commitment to the WTO, the lack of severe punishment in China upon counterfeit and pirated goods for commercial use and criminal sanction procedure, and the violation of Article 46 and Article 59 of the Trips by letting infringing goods enter into the channel of commercial circulation. However, only the first claim was supported by the special WTO dispute panel, while the rest two were rejected. |
