Fa [2025] No. 167
Annex to: Several Provisions of the Supreme People’s Court on the Jurisdiction over First-Instance Intellectual Property Civil and Administrative Cases (Fa Shi [2022] No. 13)
Issued on September 23, 2025
Effective: October 1, 2025
Subject: Adjustment of the basic people’s courts having jurisdiction over first-instance intellectual property civil and administrative cases and their jurisdictional regions
Repeals: Notice of the Supreme People’s Court on Printing and Issuing the Standards for the Jurisdiction of Basic People’s Courts over First-Instance Intellectual Property Civil and Administrative Cases (Fa [2022] No. 109)
To the high people’s courts of all provinces, autonomous regions and municipalities directly under the Central Government, the Military Court of the People’s Liberation Army, and the branch of the High People’s Court of the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region for the Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps:
In accordance with the Several Provisions of the Supreme People’s Court on the Jurisdiction over First-Instance Intellectual Property Civil and Administrative Cases (Fa Shi [2022] No. 13), and in light of the practice of intellectual property adjudication, the Supreme People’s Court has made adjustments to the basic people’s courts that have jurisdiction over intellectual property civil and administrative cases and to their jurisdictional regions. The adjustments are hereby printed and issued, and shall come into force on October 1, 2025.
The Notice of the Supreme People’s Court on Printing and Issuing the Standards for the Jurisdiction of Basic People’s Courts over First-Instance Intellectual Property Civil and Administrative Cases (Fa [2022] No. 109) shall be repealed simultaneously. Cases already accepted before the implementation of this Notice shall continue to be handled in accordance with the original standards.
It is hereby notified.
Supreme People’s Court
September 23, 2025
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