Twenty years after the first intellectual property division was established in a court in China, now is the time to found courts dedicated solely to hearing IP issues, said law experts and industry insiders during the annual meetings of the nation's top decision making bodies.

"It is a major move and good way to fortify the protection of IP", Tian Lipu, former commissioner of State Intellectual Property Office, told Guangming Daily.

In 1993, the nation's first IP division at a court was established at the Beijing First Intermediate People's Court. There are now some 420 IP divisions and more than 2,700 IP judges in the nation's courts.