Recently, the Guangzhou Intellectual Property Court in Guangdong Province released the trial work of technology cases in 2023, and announced the ten typical cases of service guarantee scientific and technological innovation. The court concluded 14,193 intellectual property cases in 2023, including 11,224 patent cases involving chips, artificial intelligence, biomedicine and other patent cases, an increase of 74.2%.

According to reports, the Guangzhou Intellectual Property Court focuses on strengthening the judicial protection of intellectual property rights in key core areas such as "hard core technology" and "card neck technology", and the judicial help the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area to build a scientific and technological innovation highland. In 2023, the Guangzhou Intellectual Property Court concluded 2,503 disputes concerning patent infringement of inventions and utility models in strategic emerging industries such as new generation information technology, high-end equipment manufacturing, and biomedicine. Forty-three disputes over new plant variety rights were concluded, up 290.91% year on year, involving both ornamental crops such as anthurium, camellia and phalaenopsis, as well as important food crops such as rice, corn and sweet potato. It concluded 27 technical secrets and monopoly disputes, and 426 intellectual property disputes involving foreign countries and Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan, up 24.2 percent year on year.

Since 2023, the Guangzhou Intellectual Property Court has focused on strengthening the application of punitive damages, implementing the strictest intellectual property protection, and providing a strong guarantee for high-quality development driven by scientific and technological innovation. To unify the calculation method of punitive damages, 5 cases of punitive damages will be applied in 2023, and the maximum amount of compensation awarded in the concluded cases will reach 62 million yuan, and the amount of compensation awarded will exceed 10 million yuan in 12 cases. In the case of patent infringement involving the "China Patent Gold Award" invention of the communication base station antenna, the rule of obstruction of proof is applied, and the compensation claim of the right holder is fully supported by 40 million yuan. In the case involving the "rocking chair" invention patent infringement, the system of evidence disclosure and evidence hindering litigation is applied, and compensation of 15 million yuan is judged above the maximum limit of statutory compensation.

Guangzhou Intellectual Property Court adheres to the principle of "grasping the front end and treating the disease", and builds the Guangdong intellectual property dispute mediation Center, implementing three modes of professional mediation, industrial mediation and remote mediation. In 2023, the court successfully mediated 3,887 disputes before litigation, a year-on-year increase of 34%, and withdrew 5,415 cases, a year-on-year increase of 49.2%.

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