On January 4, 2026, China’s National Intellectual Property Administration (CNIPA) announced it had revoked 4 Chinese patent firms’ licenses for filing ‘irregular’ patent applications using fabricated patent applicants based on stolen personal data. The firms in question had purchased stolen personal data from a Xu XX, who had been sentenced to 3.5 years in prison in May 2025. Xu XX illegally purchased personal information of enterprises and citizens, and used this information to register accounts in the CNIPA’s patent business …
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China’s Supreme People’s Court Releases Typical Cases on Combating Malicious Intellectual Property Litigation
On November 18, 2025, China’s Supreme People’s Court (SPC) released five Typical Cases on Combating Malicious Intellectual Property Litigation (最高人民法院发布治理知识产权恶意诉讼典型案例). While not precedential as in common law systems, typical cases are used to guide lower courts and promote consistent legal application across China. The previously-issued “Opinions of the Supreme People’s Court on Serving and Safeguarding Technological Innovation through High-Quality Adjudication” pointed out that “illegal acts that hinder innovation, such as false litigation, malicious litigation, and abuse of litigation rights, should …
4.5-Year Prison Sentence for Chinese E-Commerce Platform Operator Hosting Merchants Selling Counterfeit Goods
On October 13, 2025, the Shanghai Putuo Primary People’s Court announced a criminal verdict against Xiao XX Yu Company and 5 people for operating e-commerce platform Xiao XX Yu that knowingly sold goods with counterfeit registered trademarks having a sales volume of 10.8 million RMB. The company was fined 3 million RMB and the company management were sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment ranging from 1 year, 11 months to 4 years, 6 months and were also fined.
3.5-Year Prison Sentence in China for Counterfeiting “DIOR” Service Marks
As reported by Shanghai Legal News and others, the Shanghai No. 3 Intermediate People’s Court upheld a 3.5-year prison sentence and 1.6 million RMB fine for the principal defendant for counterfeiting DIOR service marks. An accomplice was sentenced to one-year suspended sentence and 50,000 RMB fine. From 2020, the defendant Huang XX successively operated Sichuan Fu XX Company and other companies, and hired the defendant Wang XX and others. Without the permission of the registered service mark owner, he carried …