Right remedy for the maladies of IPR protection

IN AN INTERVIEW with the media, the Supreme People's Court said it is making efforts to expedite the construction of a national appeals court for intellectual property rights cases. Beijing News comments:

China has established IPR courts in 18 cities. And each court is charged to accept and hear IPR cases from a much larger area - one to two provinces - than the city it is located in.

An appeal against a judgment is then heard by a court one-level higher than the first-trial court in the place where the appellants are from.