On February 23, 2024 China’s Supreme People’s Court (SPC) released the Supreme People’s Court Summary of Intellectual Property Court Judgments (2023) (最高人民法院知识产权法庭裁判要旨摘要(2023)). Per the SPC, the summary was formed “to highlight the judicial concepts, trial ideas, and adjudicative methods of the Intellectual Property Tribunal of the Supreme People’s Court in technical intellectual property rights and monopoly cases.” The Tribunal selected 96 cases from the 4,562 cases concluded in 2023, and summarized 104 key points as follows.
Category: Trade Secrets
IP Tribunal of the Supreme People’s Court Releases Top 10 Influential Cases at 5-Year Anniversary of Founding
On February 23, 2024, in honor of the firth anniversary of the establishment of the Intellectual Property Tribunal of China’s Supreme People’s Court (IPC), released a list of Top Ten Influential Cases. The Cases cover various technologies and areas of law including trade secret misappropriation, plant variety infringement, patent linkage and invention patent infringement.
China’s Supreme People’s Court Upholds 201.54 Million RMB Trade Secret Verdict
In what is believed to be the largest Chinese trade secret misappropriation verdict ever, China’s Supreme People’s Court affirmed a ruling in favor of Sennics Chemical Technology Co., Ltd. for 201.54 Million RMB against Chen XX and Yuncheng Jinteng Chemical Technology Co., Ltd. (运城晋腾化学科技有限公司).
China’s Supreme People’s Court Releases the 39th Batch of Guiding Cases Covering Intellectual Property Law
On December 19, 2023, China’s Supreme People’s Court (SPC, currently geoblocked) released the 39th Batch of Guiding Cases (关于发布第39批指导性案例的通知) covering intellectual property law. While China’s legal system is not a common law system, China nonetheless issues guiding cases “for reference when trying similar cases.” This batch of Guiding Cases covers invention patents, utility models, trade secrets and other intellectual property matters.