At the news conference held on the morning of April 13, the Higher People's Court briefed on the handling of IP cases by Beijing courts in 2015, and released Top 10 Exemplary Cases and Top 10 Innovation Related Cases. In 2015, Beijing courts newly accepted 13, 939 IP civil cases of first instance, marking a year-on-year growth of 24.1%; and concluded 11, 858 cases, marking a year-on-year growth of 8.49%. The newly accepted cases include 506 patent cases, 1, 210 trademark cases, 10, 935 copyright cases, 263 technical contract cases, 540 unfair competition cases, and other 485 cases. Beijing's Higher and Intermediate courts accepted 1, 332 cases of second instance and civil cases involving IP rights, and concluded 1, 274 of them. The First Intermediate Court and the IP court newly accepted 7, 948 administrative cases (1, 443 patent cases, 6, 505 trademark cases) involving IP rights grant and registration, marking a year-on-year decrease of 18.38%. The two courts concluded 8, 819 cases, marking a year-on-year growth of 86.53%. The Higher Court accepted 2, 243 cases of second instance and civil cases involving IP rights, marking a year-on-year decrease of 6.19%. The cases include 180 patent cases and 2, 063 trademark cases. The Higher Court concluded 2, 312 cases, marking a year-on-year growth of 11.15%. The 10 Exemplary Cases and 10 Innovation Related Cases were all cases of last instance and their judgments were all effective.

The Top 10 Exemplary Cases are:

  • Yao Qiong vs. Zheng Yu on copyright disputes
  • Disputes over deceiving publicity of "China's first beverage can"
  • Invalidation against an invention patent application: "a chatbot system"
  • Trademark dispute over "滴滴打车"(DiDi Taxi Hailing)
  • Review of opposition on trademark "清样"
  • Copyright dispute on Red Detachment of Women
  • Copyright and unfair competition dispute on "Super MT"
  • Copyright dispute between travel channels on the station caption
  • Dispute over design infringement of "Similac rice flour can"
  • Copyright infringement caused by selling App Lock

The Top 10 Innovation Related Cases are:

  • Unfair competition case: Sougou suing Qihoo 360 over the block of the former's explorer installation
  • Unfair competition case: "Gee" blocking video advertisement
  • Dispute over design patent infringement of building blocks
  • Administrative case of trademark rejection of "莫言"（MO, Yan）
  • Dispute over trademark "Uniqlo"
  • Dispute over the prior using right of the trademark "启航" (set sail)
  • Dispute over liability for damage caused by filing of IP litigation out of bad faith
  • MIUI vs. Qihoo 360 over jurisdiction opposition
  • Copyright dispute of model aircraft of J-10
  • Dispute over copyright ownership of 《贾志刚说春秋》（a book literally translated as Zhigang Jia's Narration on the History）

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