Doubts on the Establishment of Mandatory Mediation for Technological Intellectual Property Appellate Cases in China ——A Review of the Experience of the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit
Xie Jiatu
Law School,Shantou University,Shantou 515063,China
Abstract：Since the Supreme People's Court of China has the national jurisdiction in technological Intellectual Property(IP)appeal cases,the dilemma of litigation explosion and lack of judges emerged gradually.The legislators and scholars force on the strategy come from American that to establish the Mandatory Mediation to solve this dilemma.The U.S.Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit has faced significant controversy over the establishment of Mandatory Mediation.The mediation statics disclosed by CAFC is misleading because of the statistical caliber deviation.The statistics which is re-statistics commonly used statistical caliber in China show that the effect of Mandatory Mediation on IP appeal lawsuit in CAFC was deteriorating year by year.The effect of existing mediation regulation in China's Court is better than the former.With the improvement of IP litigation environment in China,it is difficult for the parties to enhance their motivation for mediation,and it is difficult to achieve desirable results in the implementation of mandatory mediation.The Mandatory Mediation Construction program based on the Appellate Mediation Program of CAFC is lack of a clear selecting criteria.Moreover,this program is contrary to the China's Civil Procedure Law legislation tradition which come from the Civil Law,and does not conform with the development stage of the China civil mediation at present.Therefore it is not appropriate for China to establish the Mandatory Mediation for technological intellectual property appeal cases at this stage.
谢嘉图. 中国建立技术类知识产权上诉案件强制调解制度之质疑——基于美国联邦巡回上诉法院相关经验的检视[J]. 中国科技论坛, 2024(1): 178-188.
Xie Jiatu. Doubts on the Establishment of Mandatory Mediation for Technological Intellectual Property Appellate Cases in China ——A Review of the Experience of the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit. , 2024(1): 178-188.
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