China's State Intellectual Property Office held a working meeting in the morning of January 8, where Director Tian Lipu disclosed that, from January to December of 2012, the national intellectual property authorities handled a total of 2,510 cases on patent disputes (including 2232 cases on patent infringement disputes, and 278 other patent disputes), investigated and handled 6,512 counterfeit patent cases. Therefore, a total of 9,022 cases were handled, which is twice more than that of last year.

Tian said that the IPR fast enforcement pilot project was promoted based on the IPR fast enforcement in Zhongshan, Guangdong province last year. In addition, the complaints-reporting scheme for enforcement was strengthened and an effective platform was actively built to support law enforcement.