How to determine the litigation jurisdiction of intellectual property infringement

I. Cases of first instance of patent disputes 1. Cases of first instance of general patent disputes. According to the first paragraph of Article 2 of "Several Provisions of the Supreme People's Court on Applicable Legal Issues in the Trial of Patent Disputes", cases of first instance of patent disputes shall be under the jurisdiction of the intermediate people's courts where the people's governments of provinces, autonomous regions and municipalities directly under the Central Government are located and the intermediate people's courts designated by the Supreme People's Court. The second paragraph of this article stipulates that the Supreme People's Court may, according to the actual situation, designate basic people's courts to have jurisdiction over patent dispute cases of first instance. In practice, with the approval of the Supreme People's Court, the people's courts in Yiwu, Kunshan and Haidian tried cases of design and utility model patents. 2. The patent administrative case with the Patent Reexamination Board of the State Intellectual Property Office as the defendant shall be under the jurisdiction of Beijing No.1 Intermediate People's Court. Second, the first-instance case of trademark civil disputes 1, and the first-instance case of general trademark civil disputes. According to Article 2 of the Interpretation of the Supreme People's Court on Issues Related to the Jurisdiction and the Scope of Application of Law in the Trial of Trademark Cases, the first-instance cases of trademark civil disputes shall be under the jurisdiction of the people's courts at or above the intermediate level, and the higher people's courts may decide 1-2 to accept the first-instance cases of trademark civil disputes in larger cities with the approval of the Supreme People's Court. 2. Cases that are not satisfied with the reexamination decision or ruling made by the Trademark Review and Adjudication Board of the State Council Administration for Industry and Commerce shall be under the jurisdiction of Beijing No.1 Intermediate People's Court. Third, copyright civil dispute cases. According to Article 2 of the Interpretation of the Supreme People's Court on Several Issues Concerning the Application of Laws in the Trial of Copyright Civil Disputes, copyright civil disputes shall be under the jurisdiction of the people's courts at or above the intermediate level, and the higher people's courts may, according to the actual situation in their respective jurisdictions, determine a number of grass-roots people's courts to have jurisdiction over copyright civil disputes of first instance. Fourth, civil cases of first instance against unfair competition. According to the provisions of Article 18 of the Supreme People's Court's Interpretation on Several Issues Concerning the Application of Laws in the Trial of Civil Cases of Unfair Competition, civil cases of first instance against unfair competition are generally under the jurisdiction of the Intermediate People's Court. The Higher People's Court, with the approval of the Supreme People's Court, can determine that some grass-roots people's courts can accept civil cases of first instance against unfair competition, and the grass-roots people's courts that have approved the trial of intellectual property cases can continue to accept them. Intellectual property infringement involves many aspects, such as patent infringement, copyright infringement, trademark infringement, trade secret infringement and so on. Under different tort disputes, the courts determined are different. If it is a case of first instance of general patent infringement disputes, it is often under the jurisdiction of the intermediate people's court where the people's governments of provinces, autonomous regions and municipalities directly under the Central Government are located and the intermediate people's court designated by the Supreme People's Court.