Can Patent Novelty Searches Replace Infringement Risk Assessment?

According to the White Paper on China's Intellectual Property Protection in 2021, local courts at all levels across the country received 550,263 first-instance intellectual property cases and concluded 515,861 cases, including 31,618 new patent cases. Compared with 2020, these three data increased by 24.1%, 16.5%, and 10.8% respectively. With the policy trend of "strengthening intellectual property protection," it is reasonable to believe that these data will continue to grow rapidly in 2022.

The continuously increasing number of intellectual property cases also reflects the recognition of the national innovation entities for the intellectual property protection system, and the enthusiasm for utilizing intellectual property protection to promote innovation is constantly improving. This also means that, from another perspective, when a product is about to enter the market, market entities are more necessary to ask themselves: Is there a possibility of infringing