Dispute Settlement
Trade
Intellectual Property

After a WTO Dispute Settlement panel ruled in a case brought by the US against China for lax enforcement of IPRs, a US official called it "an important victory", while a Chinese official said "[w]e are glad to see that the WTO is in favor of the majority of Chinese initiatives." The Panel found China in breach of TRIPS rules on two of the three counts brought by the US, but dismissed an American charge that China's threshold defining "commercial-scale" piracy and counterfeiting was too high.