The Information Office of the State Council recently held a press conference and released the Opinions of the Supreme People's Court on Comprehensively Strengthening the Judicial Protection of Intellectual Property, the White Paper of Intellectual Property Protection by Chinese Courts in 2019, the top 10 intellectual property cases and 50 typical intellectual property cases of Chinese courts in 2019.

According to the White Paper（link for details: http://www.court.gov.cn/zixun-xiangqing-226501.html）, in 2019, China's courts received 481,793 new intellectual property cases and concluded 475,853 cases, up 44.16% and 48.87% year on year.

In the past year, the People's Court has formed a new pattern of intellectual property trial, which is composed of the intellectual property tribunal of the Supreme People's Court, 32 high courts, 3 intellectual property courts and some intermediate and basic-level courts.

The Supreme People's Court since its establishment one year ago has shown characteristics in four aspects in the work of intellectual property tribunal: in the aspect of case trial, unifying judgment standard has been the most important work; in the aspect of trial mechanism innovation, reform and exploration was constantly carried out, such as exploring the establishment of cooperative trial mechanism of patent civil and administrative cases, the construction of the trial pattern for technical intellectual property, etc.; in terms of safeguarding innovation, it effectively served and safeguarded the national innovation driven development strategy and intellectual property power strategy, and cases that it supported the claims of right holders in accordance with the law accounted for 61.2%; in terms of foreign exchanges, it strengthened communication and exchanges with all walks of life at home and abroad,  etc.

In the past year, the People's Court has concluded a number of administrative cases of patent granting and affirmation with great social impact, effectively improving the quality of patent granting; curbing the malicious application of trademark registration according to law, depriving the intellectual property obtained maliciously of protection according to law, forcing the improvement of the quality of intellectual property granted or approved.