The Supreme People's
Court has issued a White Paper on Intellectual Property
Protection in 2020, which, among other things, reviews and
summarizes intellectual property cases in 2020.
According to
the White Paper, in 2020, the people's courts
received 525,618 cases at first and second instance, and
applications for retrial, up 9.2% from 2019, and concluded 524,387
cases, up 10.2% from 2019.
In 2020, the Supreme
People's Court received 3,470 new intellectual property civil
cases, up 38.58% from 2019, and concluded 3,260, up 64.98% from
2019. Local people's courts at all levels received 443,326
civil IP cases at first instance (up 11.1% from 2019), and
concluded 442,722, (up 12.22% from 2019). Of these first instance
cases, 28,528 were new patent cases, an increase of 28.09%;
7,815,700 were trade mark cases, an increase of 19.86%; 313,497
were copyright cases, an increase of 6.97%; 3,277 were technical
contract cases, an increase of 4.53%; 4,723 were
