Specialized Intellectual Property and Patent Courts

Specialized Intellectual Property and Patent Courts gathers the courts and tribunals of first instance dedicated to intellectual property disputes: patent validity and infringement, trademark registration and opposition, and the broader body of intellectual property law that China's Beijing Intellectual Property Court and the United States' patent and trademark adjudicative bodies exist specifically to hear. Intellectual property law's own technical complexity, requiring a bench familiar with patent claims, prior art and trademark classification, is the same rationale that separates every court in this group from a general jurisdiction trial court.