On April 21, 2026, China’s Supreme People’s Court (SPC) published its Annual Report on Legal Application Issues in Intellectual Property Cases of Courts Nationwide (2025) identifying 45 legal application issues drawn from intellectual property cases concluded by courts at all levels during 2025. The issues are organized into nine categories: patent cases (covering both civil and administrative adjudication), trademark cases (civil and administrative), copyright cases, competition cases (anti-unfair competition and anti-monopoly), new plant variety cases, integrated circuit layout design cases, technology contract cases, criminal cases, and intellectual property litigation procedures and evidence. Each entry identifies the case number and sets out the corresponding judgment summary, addressing matters such as claim construction, infringement determination, burden of proof, damages calculation, trade secret protection, data rights, jurisdictional review, and service of process in foreign-related proceedings. 

                                                                                                                                 Source. News Bureau of the Supreme People's Court