Patent dispute cases are under the jurisdiction of the intermediate people's court: according to Article 19 of the Civil Procedure Law, there are three types of civil cases of first instance under the jurisdiction of the intermediate people's court: 1. Major foreign-related cases. Foreign-related cases refer to civil cases with foreign-related factors. A major foreign-related case refers to a foreign-related case in which the subject matter of the dispute is large, or the case is complicated, or the number of parties living abroad is large. 2. Cases with significant influence in this region. This means that the impact of the case is beyond the jurisdiction of the grass-roots courts and has had a significant impact within the jurisdiction of the intermediate courts. 3. Cases determined by the Supreme Court to be under the jurisdiction of the Intermediate Court. This means that the Supreme Court determines some cases as courts of first instance by the intermediate courts according to the needs of trial work. At present, such cases mainly include: (1) maritime and maritime cases. Maritime and maritime cases shall be under the jurisdiction of the maritime court as a special court. China has established maritime courts in Guangzhou, Xiamen, Shanghai, Wuhan and other places, all of which are intermediate courts. (2) Patent dispute cases. Patent dispute cases are divided into two categories: one is patent administrative cases, which belong to the scope of administrative litigation; The other is a patent civil case, which belongs to the category of civil litigation. Patent civil cases mainly include disputes over the use fees of inventions, utility models and designs after the publication of patent applications and before the grant of patent rights; Patent infringement disputes; Case of dispute over patent application right or patent transfer contract. Patent civil cases are under the jurisdiction of the intermediate courts where the governments of provinces, autonomous regions and municipalities directly under the Central Government are located, as well as the intermediate courts in Dalian, Qingdao and special economic zones. (3) Major civil cases involving Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan. (4) cases of economic disputes in which the subject matter of litigation is relatively large or the litigation unit belongs to a province, autonomous region or municipality directly under the Central Government.
Legal objectivity:
Article 28 of the Civil Procedure Law stipulates that a lawsuit brought for infringement shall be under the jurisdiction of the people's court in the place where the infringement occurred or the defendant's domicile.