In 2025, our Guangzhou-based team resolved 81 IP disputes, maintaining a win rate exceeding 75%.
Here is how we delivered value across the IP spectrum:
On January 24–25, 2026, the 2026 Enterprise Intellectual Property Strategy Development Forum will take place in Beijing, focusing on how enterprises build resilient, forward-looking IP strategies amid industrial upgrading and intensifying global competition.
CNIPA’s January 7, 2026 National IP Directors’ Meeting work report sends a clear signal for 2026: enforcement attention will not be limited to high-profile event-term squatting. CNIPA indicates it will (1) continue cracking down on bad-faith conduct that violates the principle of good faith, such as trademark squatting and hoarding; and (2) step up governance of "misleading wordplay trademarks".
Cases in high-tech sectors such as AI, semiconductors, advanced manufacturing, chemicals, and biotech Protection covers a wide range of assets, including algorithms, process know-how, database logic, equipment-embedded technology, and biological materials.
China’s anti-unfair competition enforcement system continues to evolve alongside the rapid growth of its digital and innovation economy. Between 2021 and 2024, judicial and administrative authorities handled tens of thousands of cases, reflecting both regulatory vigilance and market complexity. These pre-2025 cases reveal how local courts, regulatory agencies, and industry sectors jointly shape the enforcement landscape and how the 2025 revision of the Anti-Unfair Competition Law further extends these trends into the age of AI, algorithms, and data governance.
