China's second intellectual property rights court has opened in the southern city of Guangzhou.
The court will hear civil and administrative lawsuits regarding patents, new plant varieties and technological knowledge.
It will hear IPR cases from all over Guangdong Province except for Shenzhen City, so the whole province will follow the same standard.
The country's first IPR court was set up in Beijing in early November and took up its first case on Tuesday.
A similar court in Shanghai is slated to be opened by the end of this year.
