The Annual Report on Intellectual Property Cases (2016) of the Supreme People's Court

    March 26, 2018 | BY

    Fang Qi, Melanie Zheng

    The annual reports on IP cases issued by the Supreme People's Court always make interesting reading, and the report for 2016 is no exception. A closer look at the highlighted cases provides some particularly revealing insights into the development of what could be described as a case law system with Chinese characteristics.

     

    In April 2017, the Supreme People's Court of the People's Republic of China (the “SPC”) published its ninth Annual Report on Intellectual Property Cases (the “Annual Report (2016)”). In this document, the SPC provided a summary of its intellectual property docket from 2016, as well as comments and analyses on some notable legal issues. These annual reports, along with other publications from the SPC, have become an important tool by which the SPC guides the lower courts in adjudicating intellectual property cases, and a channel to inform litigants as well as the public about the latest developments in SPC intellectual property jurisprudence.

     

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