IP courts are much more efficient and can be better for strengthening IP rights
Jacques de Wera, 2019 - is a professor of intellectual property law and director of digital law center at University of Geneva; J.D. from university of Lausanne in law and LLM at Columbia Law School; WIPO Magazine: “A closer look at specialized intellectual property courts” 6//19, Date Accessed: 7/16/2024 https://www.wipo.int/wipo_magazine/en/2019/03/article_0005.html //RS
Specialized IP courts are generally believed to improve the quality of justice available to IP right holders. The court’s expertise means that disputes can be handled coherently on the basis of past experience. This is particularly important for IP disputes because courts are often requested to render decisions very quickly on applications for provisional measures in order to prevent or stop an infringement of IP rights.
Specialized IP courts are better equipped to keep pace with and adapt to dynamic developments in IP law. They allow for timely and cost-effective handling of proceedings and can improve the consistency of case law. They can also help to eliminate or reduce any risk of forum shopping – whereby IP owners, given the choice of court, choose the one that will favor their interests – by centralizing IP disputes before the specialized IP courts, and can further foster the development of special procedural rules that are tailored to IP disputes.