Intellectual property cases are often giving people the impression of professional and complicated. However, in judicial practice, apart from professional technological intellectual property cases which involve patent, technical secrets, there is a significant part of simple intellectual property cases, with clear ownership and fact, and little dispute that are trialed by Basic Court.

The amount of five thousand cases each year has caused increased trial pressure. From the needs of protecting the rights of the owners in a better approach, it is necessary to conduct the separation of complicated and simple cases. Recently, Nanjing Intermediate Court issued the Trial plan to implement the intellectual property civil procedure complicated and simple separation trial reformation. According to the introduction, this is the first intellectual property civil proceedings complicated and simple separation plan in China.