Our newspaper, Nanjing, April 23 -- The Jiangsu Provincial High People's Court held a press conference today, announcing in detail the relevant data of the provincial courts in the intellectual property trial work in 2023, highlighting the construction of the legal business environment for intellectual property trial services and the development of new quality productivity, and answering media questions.

Tang Maoren, President of the Intellectual Property Division of the Jiangsu High Court, said at the press conference that last year, Jiangsu courts tried 39900 intellectual property cases, up 7.78% year on year, of which technical disputes, especially computer software copyright disputes and technical contract disputes, surged. The reporter of the Rule of Law Daily learned that at present, the number of intellectual property cases heard by the basic courts in Jiangsu accounts for 75.15%, 94.17% of civil cases are closed within the trial limit, and the rate of the first instance judgment being changed is only 0.414%, and the overall trial quality index continues to improve. By continuously strengthening the protection of core technologies in key fields and intellectual property rights of original achievements with strong innovation and great contribution, we will crack down on chain, industrialization and intellectual property crimes involving people's livelihood. In 2023, Jiangsu courts will apply punitive damages in 89 cases to determine the amount of compensation.

In order to promote the protection of trade secrets, the Jiangsu High Court, in conjunction with the Provincial Procuratorate and the Provincial Public Security Department, took the lead in issuing the Guidelines for Handling Criminal Cases of Infringement of Trade Secrets nationwide, actively responded to social concerns, and promoted the upgrading of criminal protection of trade secrets. At present, relevant criminal cases have entered the proceedings.

The Jiangsu High Court also signed the Memorandum of Cooperation on Strengthening the Collaborative Protection of Data Intellectual Property with the Provincial Intellectual Property Office, formulated the Measures for the Registration and Management of Data Intellectual Property (for Trial Implementation), and promoted data transaction, circulation, application, etc. "By properly hearing cases involving the Internet, big data, artificial intelligence and other fields that use technical means to maliciously interfere with competitors' network services, standardize network operations, purify network ecology, and promote high-level digital justice," Tang Maoren said.

It is reported that the Jiangsu High Court has continuously improved the judicial protection system and mechanism, strengthened the linkage between the upper and lower levels, left and right coordination, and focused on improving the overall protection efficiency. It includes four mechanisms: first, optimize the judicial trial system and mechanism, issue guidelines on the application of small claims procedures to intellectual property civil cases, and establish a working mechanism for the promotion, jurisdiction, supervision, management and guidance of major cases; Second, continue to improve the technical fact finding mechanism; The third is to improve the diversified dispute resolution mechanism. Yancheng Intermediate People's Court has diversified its solutions to the "Yancheng Model", which was selected by the State Intellectual Property Office and the Supreme People's Court as the first batch of typical cases of diversified mediation of intellectual property disputes; Fourth, deepen the regional judicial cooperation mechanism, issue opinions to promote the construction of the international first-class business environment in the Yangtze River Delta, and the Xuzhou Intermediate People's Court, in conjunction with the Market Supervision and Administration Bureau, establish a pattern of intellectual property administrative and judicial coordination and great protection in the Huaihai Economic Zone.