2022 marks the successful convening of the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China. It is also a landmark year for the Intellectual Property Court of the Supreme People's Court (or SPC-IPC), marked by the successful completion of its three-year pilot program, and its embarkation on a new leg of the development journey. SPC-IPC observed the guidance of Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era, followed out the Xi Jinping Thought on Rule of Law, and applied the spirits of the 20th Party Congress in all its operations. Having studied General Secretary Xi Jinping's important expositions on topics such as intellectual property protection, technological innovation, and fair competition, SPC-IPC leveraged the role of appeal hearing for technology-related intellectual property disputes and monopoly disputes to actively deepen the reform of the national-level appeal hearing mechanism for intellectual property cases. SPC-IPC is striving to provide solid judicial guarantee for strengthening the rule-of-law environment for intellectual property protection, supporting high-end innovation in science and technology, building a unified national market, and promoting a high-degree opening up. By publishing this Annual Report, SPC-IPC earnestly hopes the report may help the public better understand and supervise SPC-IPC's operations.

Full text: Annual Report of IPC of the SPC 2022.pdf