In the first half of the year, all intellectual property management departments in China steadily promoted the administrative adjudication on patent infringement disputes, focusing on key areas online and offline, and obtained good achievement and efficiency. Cases of administrative adjudication of patent infringement disputes amounted to 13,800 in total.

Cities and regions such as Beijing, Zhejiang, Shanghai, Liaoning, Jiangsu, Anhui and Hubei have continued to step up efforts to advance their work, taking multiple measures simultaneously, showing brilliant points and achieving remarkable results. Six central provinces including Shanxi and Hunan and eighteen cities in four provinces including Shanxi, Hebei, Shandong, Henan have respectively signed administrative protection collaboration agreements, established a cross-regional administrative protection collaboration leading group, and constructed collaboration mechanisms of administrative adjudication case such as clues transfer, investigation and execution, joint enforcement, mutual recognition and sharing. The CNIPA, Hunan Provincial Intellectual Property Office(IPO), Sichuan Provincial IPO, etc. continuously innovate methods, "online + offline" have held special training for the backbone of administrative adjudication cases in various regions, and consistently strengthened the system-wide construction of administrative adjudication capabilities. Wuhan issued the Administrative Rules for Patent Administrative Adjudication and Administrative Mediation Enforcement (Trial), formulated and improved mechanisms for patent administrative enforcement like administrative adjudication on patent infringement disputes, effectively promoting the pilot work of building a demonstration zone for administrative adjudication of patent infringement disputes. All regions have continually strengthened the government of patent infringement, given full play to the advantages of administrative protection, and sustainably kept a good environment for innovation and business.

For further step, the CNIPA will continue to thoroughly carry out the requirements for comprehensively strengthening the protection of intellectual property rights and intensifying the administrative adjudication work in the field of intellectual property infringement disputes, and coordinate all regions to make steady headway for the administrative adjudication of patent infringement disputes, focus on the pilot demonstration construction of administrative adjudication, and strengthen the guidance of administrative adjudication of patent infringement disputes, so as to sustainably improve the level of administrative adjudication ability across the whole system.

From CNIPA

August 18th, 2021