Supreme Court IP Tribunal 2019 Annual Report Published

Table 1. Type of Cases - Judgment Results - Duration of Cases

Type of Cases					Cases Accepted	Ratio	Cases Concluded	Rate of Conclusion	Maintain	Withdrawal	Mediation	Overturn	Average Duration of Cases
Technology-Related IP Cases	Various Types of 2nd Instance Cases	2nd Instance Civil Cases	Utility Model Infringement		454	47.2%	-	-	-	-	-	-	73 Days
			Invention Infringement		234	24.3%	-	-	-	-	-	-
			Software		142	14.8%	-	-	-	-	-	-
			Patent Agency & Licensing Contract		40	4.2%	-	-	-	-	-	-
			Technical Contract		26	2.7%	-	-	-	-	-	-
			New Plant Variety		20	2.1%	-	-	-	-	-	-
			Technical Secrets		12	1.2%	-	-	-	-	-	-
			Monopoly		9	0.9%	-	-	-	-	-	-
			Patent or application Ownership		9	0.9%	-	-	-	-	-	-
			Affirmation of Non-Infringement		8	0.8%	-	-	-	-	-	-
			Inventor Remuneration		7	0.7%	-	-	-	-	-	-
			IC Circuit Layout Design		1	0.1%	-	-	-	-	-	-
			Total (2nd Instance Civil Cases)		962	100%	586	60.9%	236	213	71	66 (11.3%)
		2nd Instance Administrative Cases	Grant & Validity Cases	Invention Patent Validity	80	33.2%	-	-	-	-	-	-
				Invention Application Reexamination	71	29.5%	-	-	-	-	-	-
				Utility Model Patent Validity	57	23.7%	-	-	-	-	-	-
				Design Patent Validity	13	5.4%	-	-	-	-	-	-
				Utility Model Application Reexamination	9	3.7%	-	-	-	-	-	-
				Subtotal	230	95.4%	-	-	-	-	-	-
			Administrative Sanction		7	2.9%	-	-	-	-	-	-
			Other		4	1.7%	-	-	-	-	-	-
			Total (2nd Instance Administrative Cases)		241	100%	142	58.9%	126	11	-	5 (3.5%)
		2nd Instance Jurisdiction Dispute			481	-	446	92.7%	369	56	-	21 (4.7%)	29.4 Days
		Total (2nd Instance)			1684	-	1174	69.7%	731	280	71	92	-
	Other				261	-	259	99.2%	-	-	-	-	-
	Grand Total				1945	-	1433	73.7%	-	-	-	-	-

Table 2. Foreign-Related Cases

Type of Cases		Technology-Related IP Cases
		Various Types of 2nd Instance Cases					Other Cases	Total
		2nd Instance Civil Cases	2nd Instance Administrative Cases	Civil & Administrative Subtotal	2nd Instance Jurisdiction Dispute	2nd Instance Total
Foreign-Related Cases Received	EU Countries							75
	U.S.							54
	Japan							15
	Korea							4
	Canada							2
	Israel							2
	Australia							1
	South Africa							1
	Hong Kong (HK) Macao (MO) Taiwan (TW)							20
	Total	50	52	102	71	173	1	174
Foreign-Related Cases Concluded	Foreign Party Won			21
	HK MO TW Party Won			3
	Mainland Party Won			11
	Total			35				98

Source of Cases

The appeal cases handled by the IP Tribunal of the Supreme People’s Court came from different courts. In terms of the source regions of the cases, the top ten include: Beijing IP Court (376 cases), Guangzhou IP Court (297 cases), Shanghai IP Court (143 cases), Nanjing IP Tribunal (107 cases), Shenzhen IP Tribunal (96 cases), Ningbo IP Tribunal (85 cases), Suzhou IP Tribunal (71 cases), Hangzhou IP Tribunal (70 cases), Qingdao IP Tribunal (67 cases), and Jinan IP Tribunal (53 cases).

Average Work Load of Judges

On average, 39.2 cases were concluded per judge in 2019 in the IP Tribunal of the Supreme People’s Court。

Annual Report of the IP Tribunal of the Supreme People's Court (2019) can be found here http://www.court.gov.cn/zixun-xiangqing-225861.html

Prepared by

Stephen Yang

IP March

Supreme Court IP Tribunal 2019 Annual Report Published

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