China has promulgated a series of specific intellectual property laws and regulations, which provide a good policy background and social environment for the protection of intellectual property rights in China. Some multinational companies have increased their efforts to protect intellectual property rights in China, and lawyers' intellectual property business has also grown accordingly.
The trial scale of intellectual property cases is growing rapidly, with the focus being on civil copyright cases.
With the proposal of the strategy of building an innovative country, rights holders’ awareness of intellectual property protection has generally increased, the role of intellectual property in social life has become increasingly prominent, and the number of intellectual property cases accepted by people’s courts has continued to increase significantly.
From 2013 to 2019, the number of first-instance intellectual property cases heard by people's courts across the country increased year by year. In 2017, there was an explosive growth of 49.75%, with 20,654,381+ first-instance intellectual property cases. In 2065,438+2009, there were 399,000 first-instance intellectual property cases, a year-on-year growth rate of 40.79%.
1. Among intellectual property cases, copyright cases account for the largest proportion.
Among the first-instance intellectual property cases newly accepted by local people's governments at all levels, there were 23,900 new patent cases; 84,600 trademark cases; and 293,300 copyright cases, accounting for the largest number of intellectual property cases, more than 90% ; 3135 technology contract cases; 4128 competition cases; 11,300 other intellectual property civil disputes.
Note: The data is the sum of administrative, civil and criminal categories and is for reference only.
2. Judging from the types of intellectual property cases, civil cases have the largest number.
Local people’s courts at all levels* * * newly accepted 399,031 first-instance civil intellectual property cases. * * * 16,134 new first-instance administrative cases of intellectual property rights were accepted, and 5,242 new first-instance criminal cases of intellectual property infringement were accepted.
The income scale of intellectual property legal services business continues to increase.
China has promulgated a series of specific intellectual property laws and regulations, which provide a good policy background and social environment for the protection of intellectual property rights in China. Some multinational companies have increased their efforts to protect intellectual property rights in China, and lawyers' intellectual property business has also grown accordingly. According to a survey by professional friends, the average annual income of intellectual property lawyers in my country has increased with the increase in intellectual property cases. The compound annual growth rate from 2015 to 2020 is 1.56%.
Data from the National Bureau of Statistics show that from 2013 to 2019, the number of lawyers in my country increased at a compound annual growth rate of 9.62%. In 2019, there were 473,000 full-time lawyers nationwide. It is predicted that by 2020, the number of lawyers in my country is expected to exceed 500,000, and the income of intellectual property lawyers is expected to exceed 76 billion yuan.
For more data, please refer to the "China Law Firm Market Forecast and Investment Strategic Planning Analysis Report" by the Qianzhan Industry Research Institute.