In 2025, Chinese courts handled approximately 40,000 first-instance civil and commercial cases involving foreign matters, marking a nearly 50 percent increase from the previous year, according to data released by the Supreme People's Court on Monday. "These figures reflect the courts' ongoing efforts to enhance the effectiveness of foreign-related adjudication and uphold the principle of equal protect

According to a joint decision made by the China National Intellectual Property Administration (CNIPA), the European Patent Office (EPO), the Japan Patent Office (JPO), the Ministry of Intellectual Property (MOIP) of the Republic of Korea, and the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO), the IP5 Patent Prosecution Highway (PPH) pilot program will be extended for another three years, from January 6, 2026 to J

NANJING -- Data that would take 699 days to transmit over the traditional Internet was transferred in just 1.6 hours on a testbed for China's future networks. China's first national science and technology infrastructure in the information and communications technology (ICT) sector -- China Environment for Network Innovation (CENI) -- recently passed national acceptance in Nanjing, East China's Jiangsu

China has stepped up efforts to refine patent examination standards in emerging fields and new business models such as artificial intelligence in recent years, providing robust support for accelerating high-level technological self-reliance, officials from the country's top intellectual property regulator said. Heng Fuguang, spokesman for the China National Intellectual Property Administration, told a news con

The United States and China are the two top global leaders in artificial intelligence (AI) development, and China has the most generative AI patents from 2014 to 2023, an AI expert said after the International Institute for Management Development (IMD) released its AI Maturity Index on Tuesday. According to the second edition of the AI Maturity Index, which ranks companies on how effectively they have adopted AI t

The Wuhan Intermediate People's Court has issued its judgment in the Zespri's plant variety rights infringement case, filed in 2023, against two defendants involved in the unauthorized production, sale and marketing of Gold3 kiwifruit, finding that the primary defendant infringed Zespri's IP rights through the unauthorized planting and sale of Gold3. Zespri, a cooperative of kiwi fruit growers in New Z