People’s courts accept the following patent disputes:
- disputes over ownership of the right to apply for a patent;
- disputes over patent ownership;
- patent contract disputes;
- patent infringement disputes;
- disputes over passing off another’s patent;
- disputes over royalties during the provisional protection period for invention patents;
- disputes over rewards and remuneration for inventors or designers of service inventions;
- pre-action applications for conduct preservation;
- pre-action applications for property preservation;
- liability for damage caused by an application for conduct preservation;
- liability for damage caused by an application for property preservation;
- disputes over an inventor’s or designer’s right of attribution;
- disputes seeking a declaration of non-infringement;
- disputes over refund of fees after invalidation of a patent;
- liability for damage caused by malicious patent litigation;
- standard-essential patent royalty disputes;
- cases challenging a patent reexamination decision upholding rejection;
- cases challenging a patent invalidation decision;
- cases challenging a compulsory-license decision;
- cases challenging a compulsory-license royalty ruling;
- cases challenging an administrative reconsideration decision of the patent administration department under the State Council;
- cases challenging other administrative decisions of that department;
- cases challenging administrative decisions of a local patent administration department;
- disputes over whether conduct falls within the scope of patent protection;
- other patent disputes.
