People’s Republic of China will soon establish IP specialist courts in the municipalities of Beijing, Shanghai and Guangdong province. Standing on the first step of the World Intellectual Property Organization’s (WIPO) podium in terms of Intellectual Property (IP) filing, in recent years China has begun to deal with an outstanding quantity of IP litigations. The current judicial hierarchy is composed by Basic People's Courts, Intermediate People's Courts, High People's Courts, and the Supreme People's Court. Regarding IP-related disputes, Chinese justice system offers two different procedures that can be independently actioned: administrative and civil procedures. The new IP specialist courts will be introduced at the same level of Intermediate People’s Courts and they will be in charge of hearing either civil either administrative cases. With their establishment, the Chinese government is attempting to improve transparency and fight the perception of unpredictable decisions; nevertheless it’s unquestionably too soon to tell whether these provisions will meet the expectations. The gLAWcal Team LIBEAC project Wednesday, 17 September 2014 (Source: Lexology) This news has been realized by gLAWcal—Global Law Initiatives for Sustainable Development in collaboration with the University Institute of European Studies (IUSE) in Turin, Italy and the University of Piemonte Orientale, Novara, Italy which are both beneficiaries of the European Union Research Executive Agency IRSES Project “Liberalism in Between Europe And China” (LIBEAC) coordinated by Aix-Marseille University (CEPERC). This work has been realized in the framework of Workpackages 4, coordinated by University Institute of European Studies (IUSE) in Turin, Italy.