Two years ago, the Supreme People's Court Intellectual Property Court was inaugurated in Beijing on January 1.

Recently, the Supreme People's Court issued the Opinions on Comprehensively Strengthening Judicial Protection of Intellectual Property Rights.

The theme of this publicity week is to comprehensively strengthen the protection of intellectual property and promote the construction of a new pattern of development.

The theme aims to explore how IP encourages and can amplify the innovative and creative solutions that are so crucial to building our common future.

On Dec 2, Trademark Office of CNIPA announced the Notice on Cracking Down on Malicious Registration of Trademarks such as "World Cup" and "Raib" per the law.

Design patent witnesses two crucial revisions in the newly amended China Patent Law, which will significantly impact on the design patent prosecution and protection as of 1 June 2021, the effective date of the new rules.

On September 16, the 2025 IP5 Trial and Appeal Boards High-Level Meeting was held in Fuzhou. Hu Wenhui, Deputy Commissioner of the China National Intellectual Property Administration (CNIPA)...

As a result of the restructuring plan approved by the 13th National People's Congress, China's top IP administration was renamed from State Intellectual Property Office of China (SIPO) to China National Intellectual Property Administration (CNIPA) on August 29, 2018.

The 22nd Shanghai International Intellectual Property Forum (SIIPF), themed "Intellectual Property and Artificial Intelligence," opened on October 18.

SIPO and INAPI and IPOCZ have launched the Patent Prosecution Highway pilot projects on January 1, 2018, which are to end on December 31, 2020 and December 31, 2019 respectively.

The total number of intellectual property protection centers under construction and in operation in China adds up to 57.

China has joined the Hague System bringing the total number of countries covered to 94.

Increased international competitiveness in the area of intellectual property (IP) is one of China's achievements in transforming from a big IP importer to an innovator, said the CNIPA in Beijing.

In 2017, the charges for the use of imported intellectual property accounted for 6.1 percent of China's total services imports.

Lu Pengqi, Deputy Commissioner of the CNIPA met Evgenios Dimitrios, Ambassador of Greece to China in Beijing on May 22.

The bilateral agreement between China and the European Union (EU) on geographical indications (GI) took effect on March 1, 2021.

Domestic technology giant Baidu Inc led with 5,712 filings, followed by Tencent, Microsoft, Inspur and Huawei.

In February 2025, the prestige global platform WTR 1000 officially released their Recommendation List for 2025, featuring AFD China secures another accolade in Trademark Prosecution and Strategy...

Shen Changyu, Commissioner of the China National Intellectual Property Administration (CNIPA), met with Kathi Vidal, Director of the United States Patent and Trademark Office

The Advanced Roving Seminars on Patent Cooperation Treaty (PCT), co-hosted by the CNIPA and the WIPO, were held successively in Tianjin and Hubei.