People’s courts accept the following patent disputes:

1. disputes over ownership of the right to apply for a patent;

1. disputes over patent ownership;

1. patent contract disputes;

1. patent infringement disputes;

1. disputes over passing off another’s patent;

1. disputes over royalties during the provisional protection period for invention patents;

1. disputes over rewards and remuneration for inventors or designers of service inventions;

1. pre-action applications for conduct preservation;

1. pre-action applications for property preservation;

1. liability for damage caused by an application for conduct preservation;

1. liability for damage caused by an application for property preservation;

1. disputes over an inventor’s or designer’s right of attribution;

1. disputes seeking a declaration of non-infringement;

1. disputes over refund of fees after invalidation of a patent;

1. liability for damage caused by malicious patent litigation;

1. standard-essential patent royalty disputes;

1. cases challenging a patent reexamination decision upholding rejection;

1. cases challenging a patent invalidation decision;

1. cases challenging a compulsory-license decision;

1. cases challenging a compulsory-license royalty ruling;

1. cases challenging an administrative reconsideration decision of the patent administration department under the State Council;

1. cases challenging other administrative decisions of that department;

1. cases challenging administrative decisions of a local patent administration department;

1. disputes over whether conduct falls within the scope of patent protection;

1. other patent disputes.