Research on the Dispute Settlement Mechanism of Intellectual Property in International Trade Under the Belt and Road Initiative

Abstract

—In 2013, General Secretary Xi Jinping proposed the "Belt and Road Initiative" on April 30, 2019, China has signed 187 "Belt and Road Initiative" cooperation documents with 131 countries and 30 international organizations. The total import and export of goods between China and the countries along the route exceeded 6 trillion US dollars, with an average annual growth rate of 4%, which was higher than the overall growth rate of China's foreign trade in the same period. Under the concept of win-win cooperation, countries along the route are making every effort to promote the development of international trade, and there are more and more trade disputes involving intellectual property rights in the process. Starting with the relevant intellectual property dispute settlement mechanisms of countries along the "Belt and Road Initiative" line, this paper analyzes and compares the WTO intellectual property dispute settlement mechanism with the FTA intellectual property dispute settlement mechanism. Explore the generally applicable settlement mechanism of intellectual property disputes in countries along the "Belt and Road Initiative".