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The maximum amount of punitive damages awarded in intellectual property cases in Beijing courts in 2024 is 70.56 million yuan

2025-04-24   

What are the main tasks and measures taken by Beijing courts in the past year to accelerate the development of new quality productive forces around serving the capital? Ren Xuefeng, Vice President of the Beijing High People's Court, stated in response to a question from People's Daily Online that Beijing courts handle cases involving new technologies, new formats, and new models in accordance with the law, and increase the protection of scientific and technological achievements in key fields such as artificial intelligence, integrated circuits, and biomedicine. According to data, in 2024, Beijing courts received 58227 new intellectual property cases of various types, concluded 67075 cases, and concluded a total of 3514 patent cases involving key core technologies, key fields, and emerging industries. The trial efficiency of patent first instance cases ranks among the top in the world. For example, in the first case of unfair competition dispute involving the confirmation of the validity of data intellectual property registration certificates in China, the preliminary evidential effect of data intellectual property registration certificates on the legitimacy of rights holders and sources was first clarified, providing strong judicial support for the practice of data intellectual property registration in China. At the same time, Beijing courts have significantly increased the cost of infringement and illegality by strictly applying punitive damages. Ren Xuefeng introduced that in 2024, a total of 46 intellectual property cases were subject to punitive damages, a year-on-year increase of 76.9%, with the highest amount of damages awarded reaching 70.56 million yuan. For example, in the copyright infringement dispute case involving "Bubble Mart", Bubble Mart company legally enjoys the copyright of four art works including "Labubu", but the art works were used by the defendant company for the sale of clothing and bags. Based on the defendant's subjective malice that has been administratively punished and continues to infringe after being sued, the court ultimately made a high compensation judgment of 5 million yuan. In addition, the Beijing Court has continuously strengthened the administrative and judicial coordination protection, improved the linkage working mechanism with the China National Intellectual Property Administration, played the role of the "suspension should be stopped as long as possible", "withdrawal of re adjudication" and "green channel" mechanism, reduced the increase of more than 5900 lawsuits from the source, and promoted the monthly decline of 12.5% in the first instance of administrative disputes over the rejection of trademark applications for review, so as to achieve rapid division and termination of trademark administrative disputes. (outlook new era)

Edit:Fu Yu Responsible editor:Chi Hua

Source:people.cn

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