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A daily-goods company acquired an "electronic dog" patent and sued robot maker Unitree just five days later — swinging its claim between 500 yuan and 80 million yuan. China's Supreme People's Court called the conduct "carefully calculated and endlessly capricious" and ordered only 80,000 yuan in compensation. Six trolling signals, seven countermeasures (patent invalidation, counterclaim for malicious litigation, declaratory judgment of non-infringement), and a self-check for companies planning an IPO.
On September 7, 2026, China's Supreme People's Court released the first judicial guidelines on AI disputes (Fa Fa [2026] No. 10, 24 articles). Fault-based liability as the default; AI face-swap and digital-revival red lines; training on public personal data; safe-harbor rules for generative AI; product liability limited to physical carriers; autonomous driving; AI-generated content and data rights; new evidence rules — plus two issues deliberately left open. Action checklist inside.
The Supreme People's Court's IP Judicial Protection Implementation Plan (2026–2030): 552,600 IP cases accepted in 2025, including 908 data ownership and transaction disputes — up 25.6% in a year. Two self-check tables: how to classify your data assets (public/enterprise/personal, with the DataTang case, the new data provision of the Anti-Unfair Competition Law, and data pledge financing) and a five-question test of whether your non-compete agreement is actually enforceable.
Luckin Coffee won in Thailand — total compensation exceeds 95 million baht, the highest ever recorded in a Thai IP case. But the lawsuit dragged on for 5 years, and Luckin once lost a round. The real value of the case: it prices out, item by item, the true cost of delayed trademark strategy — 6 things export brands must do now.
> He Zigang | Intellectual Property Lawyer | Aipunajie·Mili·Naje > August 2026 Introduction In 2026, a small company doing software, content, and services laid out two ledgers: one reading "USD 20/mon
【IP Palace Intrigue】 --- Dear readers, today we're not discussing anything else—just a fight. Not the kind with flashing blades from martial arts novels, but the most thrilling "duel" in the intellect
On March 2, 2026, the U.S. Supreme Court declined to hear the appeal in the *Thaler* case—meaning that, in the United States, works generated entirely by AI are not eligible for copyright protection.
> Source: China Intellectual Property Society, National Guidance Center for Overseas Intellectual Property Dispute Response, *Survey of Chinese Enterprises' Overseas Intellectual Property Disputes (20
By 2026, 40% of enterprise applications will embed AI agents (Gartner), and China's enterprise-grade AI agent market will exceed RMB 48 billion. However, IDC's concurrent survey poured cold water on t
We are pleased to announce: Meili Law Firm Changping Branch has recently been officially approved for establishment. Why Changping The Changping District is a core node of Beijing's northern science a
Since 2023, 1.273 million applications for "calculated trademarks" have been rejected—the registration end has been sealed off. But what about the usage end? Effective January 1, 2027, Article 56 of t
There are 145 days left until January 1, 2027. On that day, the newly revised Trademark Law will officially take effect—your unused trademarks may be directly revoked by the authorities, your "ancient
Same SEP case, two courts, nearly double the damages. How comparable-license and top-down approaches diverge in FRAND royalty valuation — and three actions for Chinese companies.
China's latest court rulings, copyright registration practices, and enterprise compliance strategies for AI-generated content in 2026.
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