In the first half of 2021, a total of 13,800 cases of administrative adjudication of patent infringement disputes were filed across China, with Zhejiang, Jiangsu, Guangdong, Shanghai, Sichuan, Fujian, Hebei, Beijing and Anhui ranking among the top places in the country in terms of the number of cases filed.
The China National Intellectual Property Administration (CNIPA) issued the National Work Program for the Administrative Protection of Intellectual Property Rights for 2021 (“Work Program for 2021”) in March. In accordance with the requirements of Work Program for 2021, local intellectual property authorities formulated their own implementation plans to effectively promote the work of administrative adjudication of patent. For example, the Intellectual Property Administration of Wuhan Administration of Market Supervision issued its Regulations on the Management of Technical Investigation Officers for Administrative Adjudication of Patent Infringement Disputes (provisional). Six central provinces, including Shanxi and Hunan, have signed administrative protection collaboration agreements, set up inter-regional administrative protection collaboration leading groups, and built collaborative mechanisms for the transfer of evidence, investigation and execution, joint law enforcement, and mutual recognition and sharing of administrative adjudication cases.
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https://www.cnipa.gov.cn/art/2021/8/18/art_53_169516.html (Chinese)