On April 20, 2026, China’s Supreme People’s Court (SPC) released the Implementation Plan for Judicial Protection of Intellectual Property Rights by People’s Courts (2026-2030) setting out the framework for IP adjudication during the 15th Five-Year Plan period. The Implementation Plan identifies technology sectors targeted for strengthened judicial protection, including integrated circuits, industrial machine tools, high-end instruments, basic software, advanced materials, biomanufacturing, high-end equipment, aerospace, and new energy. It addresses adjudication rules for artificial intelligence matters, including the legal attributes of AI-generated content, use of training corpora, and allocation of responsibility among AI developers, operators, and users. The Plan also addresses data rights adjudication (covering public data, enterprise data, and personal information data), trade secret protection and non-compete clause enforcement in talent competition, and regulation of malicious trademark registration and “brand imitation.”

                                                                                                                                               Source.www.court.gov.cn