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Intellectual property



Supreme People's Court, Provisions for Jurisdiction in Cases by the Beijing, Shanghai and Guangzhou Intellectual Property Courts

最高人民法院关于北京、上海、广州知识产权法院案件管辖的规定



Intellectual property courts shall have jurisdiction over the following cases at first instance within their jurisdictions in the municipalities where they are located:



(1) civil and administrative cases involving patents, new varieties of plants, integrated circuit layout designs, technical secrets and computer software;



(2) administrative cases in which a legal action is brought in respect of administrative acts involving copyrights, trademarks, unfair competition, etc. rendered by a State Council department or a local people's government at the county level or above; and



(3) civil cases involving the recognition of well-known trademarks.