On April 20 2011, the Supreme People's Court of the People's Republic of China (SPC) promulgated the Annual Report on Intellectual Property Cases (知识产权案件年度报告) (2010) (Annual Report), which comprises the SPC's 43 pieces of brief comments on 36 intellectual property (IP) cases adjudicated by the same court in 2010. Based upon the nature of dispute, the Annual Report is categorised into seven main aspects, including: 1) Patent Cases, 2) Copyright Cases, 3) Trademark Cases, 4) Anti-unfair Competition Cases, 5) IP-related Contract Cases, 6) The Liability of IP Infringement, and 7) The Evidence and Procedures in IP Litigation.
This annual report is the one that was issued by the SPC after the 2008 and 2009 reports, through which the SPC purposes to provide guidance to the judicial practice