Adhere to the principle of strict intellectual property rights protection
Intensify the investigation and punishment of infringement and counterfeiting. Strengthen the protection of intellectual property rights such as patents, trademarks and geographical indications, take measures to confiscate illegal income and destroy infringing and counterfeit goods, increase administrative penalties, and carry out special administrative enforcement in key areas, key links and key groups.
Crack down on the infringement of intellectual property rights and the production and sale of counterfeit and shoddy goods. Take part in actions such as Suyuan, Jinghua, Tiequan and Wangjian in the field of intellectual property law enforcement, and actively carry out the campaign for spring tea geographical indications and the special protection campaign for autumn geographical indications. Crack down on malicious trademark registration applications, abnormal patent applications and malicious litigation. Intensify efforts to crack down on case of criminal intellectual property, strengthen civil judicial protection, correctly apply legal compensation, and actively apply punitive damages to repeated, malicious and other serious offenders, in order to establish a damage compensation mechanism conducive to the realization of intellectual property value.
Strengthen the protection of intellectual property administrative law enforcement. Improve the effectiveness of administrative mediation agreement of intellectual property rights and establish a judicial confirmation system of administrative mediation agreements on intellectual property rights disputes.
From Jan to Sep 2025, Shanghai filed 2,293 patent infringement cases (2,287 closed), handled 216 foreign-related trademark infringement cases, and cracked 18 geographical indication infringement cases. A case involving infringement of a well-known brand's intellectual property in Shanghai was named a national typical IP protection case in 2025.
