Jiang Ying, president of the Beijing Internet Court (BIC), attended the Global Forum on Intellectual Property Protection and Innovation, a parallel session of the Zhongguancun Forum on May 30 and signed a cooperation framework agreement with the Beijing Municipal Intellectual Property Office and the Beijing International Data Exchange on the pilot work of data intellectual property rights (IPR) registration. The BIC's Vice-President Zhao Ruigang and judges from the BIC's First Comprehensive Division also attended the event.  

The BIC, as a functional court, shoulders major duties of promoting innovative development of the digital economy, safeguarding cybersecurity and building of the cyberspace governance system. Based on the agreement, the BIC will cooperate with the other two parties in the registration, transaction circulation, dispute resolution, platform development, and talent fostering of data intellectual property, jointly promote the exploration and establishment of a data property rights system in the market-oriented allocation of data elements in Beijing, promote the safe and compliant flow of data, and regulate the development of the data elements market.

Data-related rights protection is one of the key annual tasks of the BIC to serve the capital in taking the lead to basically achieve socialist modernization. The court has done preliminary work in researching the protection path of data-related rights. It has held seminars with institutions including Renmin University of China, China University of Political Science and Law and China Academy of Information and Communications Technology. Also it has heard a group of data-related cases and summarized the judgement rules for such cases as guidance for related parties in data utilization and transaction. They also conducted surveys and seminars with relevant departments to jointly promote the pilot protection of data-related rights.