2022/5/20 11:02:20
2021年最高人民法院知识产权法庭审查趋势及数据(节选).mp3
In 2021, the court accepted 5238 intellectual property and monopoly cases involving technologies with an increase of 1158 cases compared with that of 2020, marking a year-on-year increase of 36.4%.
In2021, the court received 437 new cases involving foreign countries. Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan accounted for 10.1% of the total, with a year-on-year increase of 16.2%.
Trial period - seemed to be longer, The average duration of the trial period for various cases is 134 days.

Of the 2569 civil cases of the second instance which were initiated, there are:576 disputes over infringement of invention patents (marking a rising trend);806 disputes over infringement of utility model patent;213 disputes over patent application right and ownership of patent right (marking arising trend).
Among the 1290 newly received administrative cases of second instance, there are:
457 disputes over rejection and reexamination and 283 disputes over invalidation of invention patent applications (a significant increase);
36 disputes over rejection and reexamination and 234 disputes over invalidation of utility model patent applications (an increasing trend);
3 disputes over rejection and reexamination and 102 disputes over invalidation of design patent application (an increasing trend).

(1) The number of cases continues to grow involving a wider range of technical fields. In 2019, 12 cases of technical secret disputes were accepted, which increased to 44 in 2020 and 79 in 2021.
(2)The legal issues involved are complex and diverse:
Procedural issues mainly involve; jurisdiction disputes, including the place of infringement, the determination of repeated prosecution, and the determination of jurisdiction when the liability for breach of the contract coincides with the liability for infringement.
Disputes over substantive issues include: content and scope of technical secrets、determination of the amount of compensation for infringement of technical secrets and confidentiality measures、infringement of technical secrets、substantial contribution in modifying and improving technical secrets、identificationof whether the technical information of customized products constitutes technical secrets, etc.
(2)涉及的法律问题复杂多样:程序问题主要涉及:管辖权争议,包括侵权行为地、重复起诉情形的认定及违约责任与侵权责任竞合时管辖的确定等。
(3)There has been a marked increase in cases where the amount of compensation was high. Following the five times punitive damages of more than 30 million RMB sentenced in the "Kapo" technical secrets infringement case in 2020, 159 million RMB was awarded in the "Vanillin" technical secrets infringement case.
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本期双语播报员:三友-王培