On April 21, 2026, the Beijing Intellectual Property Court published its annual case list for 2025. The release includes ten main cases (available in both Chinese and English) and nine nominated cases. These cases were chosen from nearly 29,000 decisions

Recently, the official website of the International Union for the Protection of New Varieties of Plants (UPOV) added a new section featuring judicial protection cases related to Chinas seed industry. This is the first time UPOV has published such cases fr

In an appeal case concerning a dispute over infringement of technical secrets, the Intellectual Property Court of the Supreme People's Court conducted a comprehensive analysis to establish the joint infringement of three infringers, clarified and refined

In a second-instance judgment on a monopoly dispute between Company A and Company B, the Supreme People's Court upheld the first-instance court's determination regarding a horizontal monopoly agreement and maintained the first-instance judgment that the h

In the invalidation examination on new plant variety rights initiated upon application, the invalidation requester must file an invalidation request with evidence, and the Plant Variety Review Board generally only reviews the invalidation grounds clearly

The Supreme People's Court issued a final judgment in a plant variety infringement case, clarifying that when determining variety identity using molecular marker methods, any expansion of detection sites must strictly follow relevant standards and protoco

The Supreme Peoples Court issued a final judgment in an anti-monopoly case concerning administrative penalties and administrative reconsideration against API (active pharmaceutical ingredient) operators who formed and implemented a horizontal monopoly agr

The Supreme People's Court concluded a case involving an on-the-job technical professional who invested and established a separate company, cloning relevant business operations to infringe upon the trade secrets of his employing company. The court revised

If the alleged infringer provides technical secret information or its carrier to specific or non-specific entities, causing the technical secret to escape the control of the rights holder and become known to others, the People's Court may determine such c

The Supreme People's Court recently concluded an appeal case involving an administrative dispute over the cancellation of an integrated circuit layout design. On top of clarifying the assessment of originality of the disputed layout design, the Court furt