Recently, the Second International Exchange Conference on Intellectual Property Enforcement, co-hosted by the State Administration for Market Regulation and the World Intellectual Property Organization, opened in Changsha, Hunan. At the meeting, the 2025---2026 Top Ten Chinese Intellectual Property Administrative Enforcement Cases were released, as follows: 1. Tianjin Municipal Market Regulation Commission investigated and handled the case of Ni selling clothing infringing the registered tradema...

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Hubeis first AI short drama copyright infringement case was recently concluded at the Jiangan District Peoples Court of Wuhan. The court determined that the AI-assisted micro short drama at issue constituted an audiovisual work protected by copyright law, and for the first time included the computing power cost brought by token consumption in the damages consideration, sentencing the infringing party to pay 20,000 yuan in compensation. Plaintiff Company A is a professional micro short drama crea...

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Recently, the State Administration for Market Regulation released a batch of typical trade secret cases, and the case handled by the Hangzhou Municipal Market Regulation Bureau involving Chinas first trade secret case concerning a vertical artificial intelligence large model was selected. In this case, Sun disclosed relevant technical materials to a Hangzhou Technology Co., Ltd., which is controlled by him, during his employment, such as the rights holders exclusive prompt templates for the larg...

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Recently, Shandong Swan Cotton Industrial Machinery Stock Co., Ltd. issued a litigation progress announcement, stating that it had received a civil ruling served by the Supreme Peoples Court: because the patent at issue had been declared entirely invalid by the China National Intellectual Property Administration and the validity of the right was in an unstable state, the first-instance courts dismissal of the lawsuit filed by the U.S. company Deere was not clearly improper, and the Supreme Peopl...

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Recently, the Supreme Peoples Court issued the Opinions on Lawfully Hearing Cases Involving Artificial Intelligence Disputes (hereinafter referred to as the Opinions). This is the first judicial adjudication rules document involving artificial intelligence issued by the highest judicial organ of the State. The Opinions consist of 5 parts and 24 articles, focusing on issues of social concern such as AI face-swapping and voice simulation and AI hallucination infringement, online doxxing, big data...

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During the 2026 China Fair Competition Policy Publicity Week, the Supreme Peoples Court selected and released 9 typical cases focusing on important legal issues such as the determination of passing off and confusion, infringement of technical secrets, commercial disparagement, false advertising, online unfair competition acts, and the application of the general clauses of the Anti-Unfair Competition Law. The content covers both traditional consumer fields and emerging and key fields such as arti...

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Recently, the Supreme Peoples Procuratorate selected and compiled 5 typical cases of technical support for intellectual property procuratorial case handling. These cases use technological means to support the performance of legal supervision duties and have inspirational and demonstrative significance for intellectual property procuratorial case handling in the new era. Case1 The case of infringement of trade secrets by Xia, Li, and two others. Significance: Intelligent electronic evidence revie...

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Recently, the State Administration for Market Regulation published six typical cases of infringement of trade secrets, as follows: 1. The Yangpu District Market Supervision Bureau of Shanghai investigated and handled the case of infringement of trade secrets involving Xuejing Electronic Technology (Shanghai) Co., Ltd., Nanjing Jiulanwen Instrument Technology Co., Ltd., Xu, and Guan. Significance: This is a typical model of trade secret infringement characterized by individual disclosure + corpor...

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It has long been debated whether card games can be protected as audiovisual works under copyright law, and whether copyright law or the Anti-Unfair Competition Law should be applied to those reskinned games that copy game rules and gameplay. Recently, a case heard by the Shanghai Intellectual Property Court provided a clear answer. Background: The plaintiff, Shanghai L Network Technology Co., Ltd., is the operator of the game Jianmou. They claimed that this game could be protected as an audiovis...

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Recently, at the 2026 Zhongguancun Forum Global IP Protection and Innovation, the Haidian District Market Supervision Administration of Beijing officially released the Guidelines for Intellectual Property Protection in AI New Drug RD Industry (hereinafter referred to as the Guidelines), providing a systematic solution for building a solid intellectual property protection basis for this strategically important emerging industry. Based on the realities of the industry, the Guidelines focus on the...

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