Great article on IPLaw360 by Matthew Bultman On Chinese Patent Litigation

Excellent article on patent litigation in China, and it even includes several quotes from me:

• “No place in the world can you spend less than a half-million dollars and get an injunction worldwide in less than a year,” said Erick Robinson, the director of patent litigation at Beijing East IP Ltd. “That’s the promise of China.”​
  
• Long criticized as being lax in protecting intellectual property rights, China hasn’t always been the most attractive place for foreign companies to file patent suits. Even a few years ago, Robinson said, he wouldn’t have advised filing there.
• In the past, “the words 'intellectual property' and China being used in the same sentence was usually in the form of a joke,” Robinson said. But in more recent years people “began to realize they were serious about putting forth a real enforcement scheme.”
• But last year China’s highest court issued an important ruling that shifted the burden of proof in situations in which damages information is difficult to obtain. “It basically was a sea change because now all of a sudden, instead of everything by definition being capped at $150,000, you can take advantage of the damages law in China that prior to that ruling you couldn’t,” Robinson said.
• Damages are “no longer a joke, which is interesting because the real reason to file in China until this has always been the injunction, which is virtually guaranteed,” Robinson said. “Now not only do you get the injunction, but you also get the possibility of legitimate damages.

Check out the full article here:  https://www.law360.com/ip/articles/914779/china-becoming-more-attractive-for-foreign-patent-owners

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