On April 22, the Supreme People's Court held a press conference for the Intellectual Property Publicity Week to introduce the overall situation of judicial protection of intellectual property in courts across the country in 2020, and issued the "People's Courts of Intellectual Property Judicial Protection Plan (2021-2025)".

The "Plan" clarified the overall requirements and specific measures for the People's Courts to comprehensively strengthen judicial protection of IPR during the "14th Five-Year Plan" period. According to the reporter's understanding, the main content of the "Plan" includes five aspects, including overall requirements, giving full play to the role of IP adjudication, deepening reform and innovation in the field of IP adjudication, strengthening IP adjudication guarantees, and optimizing IP protection working mechanisms.

Among them, in terms of giving full play to the role of IP trial functions, the "Plan" proposes to strengthen anti-monopoly and anti-unfair competition trials. Strengthen the trial of anti-monopoly and anti-unfair competition cases, strengthen the basic status of competition policy, formulate relevant judicial interpretations in a timely manner, clearly regulate various types of monopoly and unfair competition, eliminate market blockades, and promote fair competition. And properly handle Internet monopoly disputes, improve platform economy anti-monopoly adjudication rules, prevent the disorderly expansion of capital, and promote the healthy and sustainable development of platform economy norms.