recently, the supreme court issued a press release, reposting that it planed to carry out a series of surveys on the enforcement of intellectual property in china with the aid of the state intellectual property office (sipo) and the state trademark office (sto).  these surveys encompass a variety of subjects, mainly including aspects as follows:

(1)   the mechanism and procedure for intellectual property rights establishment, for example, the roles of the patent reexamination board and the trademark review and adjudication board in an administrative suit on patent and trademark validity, respectively;

(2)   the interplay among the civil, administrative, and criminal procedure for intellectual property rights protection;

(3)   the mechanism for resolving the infringement dispute of intellectual property rights, e.g. the pre-suit measures, the calculation of damages, and the related evidence rules.

in the press release, the supreme court also listed the judge or official from the sipo or sto who would take charge of the respective survey.  if you have opinion, please try to contact with the responsible person.  it is hoped that these surveys could help to make the intellectual property rights enforcement more reasonable and effective in final.(warmly welcome your opinions, send them to judge jiang directly.)