Trials relating to medical matters take an average three years to complete compared with 8.8 months for civil trials, according to a Supreme Court report released Thursday.
Lawsuits on intellectual property such as patents require 21.7 months to finish, according to the report submitted by the court to the government's Judicial Reform Council.
Trials involving witnesses take 19.7 months to complete, it says.
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