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China is becoming a preferred destination for resolving international intellectual property disputes as a result of its commitment to granting equal protection in case handling, an official from the country's top court said. Since January 2019, the Intellectual Property Court of the Supreme People's Court has handled 20,338 cases, of which about 10 percent involved foreign parties, with the number of foreign-related cases growing 28.6 percent year-on-year, according to He Zhonglin, first deputy chief judge of the IP Court. Foreign-related cases accounted for as much as 30 percent of disputes over authorized and confirmed invention patents, He said, adding that the number of cases in which all parties are foreign entities is rapidly increasing. "China is the country hearing the most patent lawsuits in the world, becoming one of the preferred venues for resolving international IP litigation," He said at a seminar in Beijing on Thursday. "We've always upheld the principle of providing equ
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