On September 23, the Hangzhou Intellectual Property Court released the court’s performance report and representative cases to mark its 4th anniversary.

Within 4 years, the specialized court has heard 14,782 intellectual property cases, an increase of 112.11% from the same period before its inception. 71.26% of all cases are patent disputes. 90.67% of the cases were decided at courts of first instance, an increase of 3.55% from the same period before its inception.

Judicial protection has been robustly exerted on critical technologies, emerging industries, and crucial economic areas. Cases concerning new transactional patterns and technologies have cropped up, with a substantive increase in overseas businesses involved.

In light of their professional complexity, the Hangzhou Intermediate People's Court recruited four full-time technical investigators and 31 experts and scholars as part-time technical investigators to examining technical facts. The objectivity, neutrality, and scientific nature of the identification of technical facts have been improved significantly.