China, January 2013: Kaercher, a German company specialized on cleaning technology, fully succeeds in China in a lawsuit versus the China based company Wenzhou Haibao. Kaercher is now able to stop copying products of a high-pressure cleaners. This case is an example of the increasing legal certainty in China regarding IP. Also Chinese companies investing in R&D suffer more and more by copies from Chinese competitors. Thus, in more than 90% of all IP suits in China only domestic companies are involved.