More cases involve govt agencies

More than 50 central government agencies were taken to court by public and the private sector in China in the past two decades, about a half of these in the last four years, Beijing's high court said yesterday.

From 1990 to 2008, 35,478 cases were filed by citizens seeking legal action against officials and government agencies for violating their interests, a press conference by Beijing Municipal High People's Court said.

There were more than 3000 cases involving trademarks, patents and other intellectual property rights disputes during the period recorded and involved plaintiffs from major domestic enterprises as well as 20 counties and regions, said the court's vice-president Wang Zhenqing.