Institutions of Intellectual Property of all provinces, autonomous regions, municipalities directly under the Central Government, and the Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps; All departments of the General Administration of Intellectual Property, the Examination and Adjudication Department, the Reexamination and Invalidity Review Department of the Patent Office, and the Trademark Office:
The "Administrative Protection Work Plan for Intellectual Property Rights in 2026" has been issued to you. Please, based on your actual circumstances, earnestly implement it.
National Intellectual Property Administration
March 31st, 2026
2026 Intellectual Property Administrative Protection Work Plan
1. Improve the intellectual property rights system and regulations. Accelerate the comprehensive revision of the Trademark Law and the revision of the "Regulations on the Protection of Integrated Circuit Layout Designs" and its implementing rules. Study and formulate administrative rulings and mediation regulations for disputes involving standard-essential patents, as well as administrative rulings and mediation guidelines for patent disputes. Implement the "15th Five-Year Plan for the Protection and Utilization of Geographical Indications", and improve relevant local regulations on geographical indications. Focus on emerging fields such as artificial intelligence, and strengthen research on the protection needs and system rules in this area.
II. Strengthening Source Protection of Intellectual Property Rights. Implement "dual penalties" for applicants and agencies, and intensify efforts to address patent application and agency behaviors that violate the principle of good faith. Make full use of mechanisms such as rapid patent examination, priority examination, and centralized examination to provide precise service support for national strategic scientific and technological forces. Crack down on malicious trademark registration and hoarding behaviors, further increase the intensity of information notification and transfer, clarify local responsibilities, and strengthen case handling. Give full play to the role of the trademark rapid examination mechanism, support regional economic development. Continuously promote the transformation of original agricultural product geographical indications, and support the coordination of protection requirements for geographically indicated products with collective trademarks and certification trademarks when they are registered as geographical indications.
III. Strengthen administrative adjudication of patent disputes. Enhance publicity and promotion of the system, guiding more enterprises to choose the administrative adjudication channel to efficiently resolve disputes. Improve and optimize the three-level administrative adjudication working system of "national - provincial - municipal", and压实 the main responsibility of case handling at the provincial and municipal levels， legally strengthening the acceptance and handling of administrative adjudication cases. For cases that meet the conditions for filing major patent infringement disputes through administrative adjudication， timely provide proof materials and submit processing requests in accordance with the procedures. Support local regions to carry out pilot projects on administrative adjudication of disputes involving standard-essential patents. Conduct cross-regional joint trials of patent infringement disputes in the photovoltaic industry to guide photovoltaic enterprises to establish an intellectual property compliance management system. Strengthen joint handling of administrative adjudication and administrative confirmation cases. Support qualified intellectual property protection centers to leverage their professional advantages and legally and in accordance with regulations carry out administrative adjudication work.
IV. Strengthening Trademark Usage Management. Strictly regulate behaviors that deceive and mislead the public through trademark use, and intensify supervision and governance of the use of unregistered trademarks that are deceptive or have adverse effects. Focus on areas such as food and medicine, children's toys, and household appliances. Innovate regulatory methods and enhance work effectiveness by addressing behaviors such as the combination of registered trademarks with product names, advertising slogans, and product packaging that cause confusion. Improve the collaborative mechanism with the market supervision department, perfect the reporting mechanism, promptly notify the market supervision department of illegal clues for legal查处， and handle a number of typical cases. Strengthen publicity and training on trademark usage for production and sales enterprises， reminding them to use trademarks reasonably and in a standardized manner， ensuring the quality of goods and services， maintaining trademark reputation， and eliminating speculative tendencies.
V. Strengthening Geographical Indication Protection. Thoroughly carry out the creation and acceptance work for the new batch of national geographical indication protection demonstration areas, continuously enhance policy guidance, business guidance, resource allocation and follow-up management. Deeply implement the geographical indication protection project, strengthen coordination and linkage with the national geographical indication protection demonstration areas. Accelerate the supply of standards for geographical indication products, comprehensively enhance the inspection and testing capabilities of geographical indication products, strictly adhere to the unique quality characteristics of geographical indication products. Strengthen the daily supervision of the use of the exclusive geographical indication marks, and promote the implementation of dynamic management of the operating entities using the exclusive geographical indication marks, with "in and out" adjustments.
VI. Strengthening Protection of Foreign-related Intellectual Property Rights. Further enhance coordination between the central and local governments, and strengthen collaborative handling of major foreign-related intellectual property cases. Make full use of the platform for guiding responses to overseas intellectual property disputes at local levels, enhance the capabilities of professionals, strengthen communication and exchanges with domestic and foreign-funded enterprises, promptly respond to enterprise demands, and increase the intensity of guidance on overseas intellectual property disputes in key industries and regions. Improve the overseas risk early warning mechanism, strengthen the early warning and monitoring of disputes related to essential patents for standards, "337 investigations", cross-border e-commerce litigation, and malicious trademark registration, and enhance the timeliness and initiative of services. Strengthen coordination with the commerce department, and strictly manage the transfer of intellectual property rights abroad in technology exports in accordance with the law. Better leverage the role of overseas intellectual property infringement liability insurance and protection assistance programs.
VII. Promote rapid and coordinated protection. Strengthen the operation and management of intellectual property protection centers and rapid dispute resolution centers, focusing on cutting-edge fields such as the digital economy, artificial intelligence, integrated circuits, quantum technology, and brain-computer interfaces, and increase service efforts. Fully implement rapid handling of intellectual property disputes, quickly and properly resolve disputes, and provide service support for the implementation of national major strategies and regional development strategies. Strengthen pre-examination quality management and optimize the linkage mechanism for patent examination and pre-examination quality management. Promote the establishment of trademark acceptance windows in qualified intellectual property protection centers and rapid dispute resolution centers, and carry out identification, consultation, and dispute mediation services in fields such as integrated circuit layout designs, plant new varieties, and intangible cultural heritage. Support intellectual property protection centers and rapid dispute resolution centers in similar industrial fields to carry out cross-regional intellectual property protection cooperation.
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VIII. Promote diversified resolution of disputes. Through measures such as establishing an expert database, strengthen the professionalization of the people's mediation organizations for intellectual property rights, enhance the professionalism and credibility of the mediation, and do a good job in the selection of intellectual property dispute mediation cases. Support qualified arbitration institutions to set up internal departments for intellectual property arbitration, establish a list of intellectual property arbitrators, and concentrate resources to provide professional arbitration services. Strengthen the construction of a credit system in the field of intellectual property rights, strengthen the punishment for acts such as trademark infringement, malicious trademark registration, and patent applications that violate the principle of good faith, etc. Encourage regions with conditions to use big data technology to achieve real-time monitoring of clues of infringement and illegal behavior on e-commerce platforms, guide e-commerce platforms to handle infringement and illegal behavior promptly, and压实 the responsibility of the platforms.
IX. Strengthen intellectual property protection in key areas and at critical time points. Focus on areas such as agriculture, food and drugs, rehabilitation assistive devices, and green and low-carbon technologies, and increase the intensity of daily supervision and law enforcement guidance for intellectual property protection. Strengthen the protection of well-known trademarks and Chinese traditional brands, and give priority protection to geographical indications such as "Xuan Paper" that are included in the national intangible cultural heritage list. Ensure intellectual property protection for major events and competitions such as the 2026 APEC Conference, the 48th World Skills Competition, and the 6th Asian Beach Games. Strengthen pre-event inspections, in-event patrols, and post-event follow-ups at large exhibitions such as the China Import and Export Fair. Conduct intellectual property protection work during important festivals, and strengthen supervision of e-commerce platforms, supermarkets, and specialized markets. Carry out risk investigations and special campaigns related to geographical indication protection during the period when seasonal geographical indications products are in concentrated supply.
X. Strengthen collaboration in intellectual property protection. Deepen cooperation with courts, procuratorates, public security departments, market supervision departments, etc., and enhance the connection between administrative protection and judicial protection. In key industries such as photovoltaics, ensure information sharing with departments such as industry and information technology, state-owned assets supervision and management, and customs, to form efficient linkage in handling disputes. Focus on international innovation centers such as Beijing (Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region), Shanghai (Yangtze River Delta region), and the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area, as well as regional innovation centers such as Chengdu, Wuhan, and Xi'an. Actively leverage the cross-regional law enforcement collaboration mechanism, crack down on infringement and counterfeiting with heavy-handed measures, increase the intensity of cross-regional administrative protection collaboration, strengthen the tracking of transferred clues, and implement and refine information sharing, joint evidence collection, mutual recognition of results, and other work to conduct full-chain tracking and handling of infringement behaviors in all stages of production, storage, transportation, and sales.
XIV. Strengthening Professional Capacity Building. Increase the follow-up handling and resolution efforts for patent and trademark infringement cases that have been approved for handling, improving the quality and efficiency of case processing. Enhance business exchanges and interactions, actively carry out cross-departmental and cross-regional business training, case discussions, skill competitions, and other activities, and strengthen the construction of the administrative protection talent team. Fully rely on professional forces such as the Patent Examination Collaboration Center, Trademark Examination Collaboration Center, Intellectual Property Protection Center, and Quick Response Center, as well as intellectual property appraisal institutions, to provide basic support for administrative protection. Strengthen the construction of infringement determination capabilities. For complex and difficult infringement disputes, professional departments can provide infringement consultation opinions to offer technical support. Conduct case review of intellectual property law enforcement, strengthen the selection and submission of guiding cases and typical cases. Timely publish relevant typical cases to explain the law and guide the improvement of case handling capabilities. Promote the use of the national intellectual property public service platform. In regions with conditions, accelerate the construction of intellectual property information service platforms and independent control thematic databases, and strengthen data sharing and business collaboration.
12. Strengthen organizational support. Each provincial intellectual property bureau should, based on the 2025 central assessment results for quality, food safety, and intellectual property protection, carry out the assigned tasks meticulously. They should clarify responsibility divisions, detail implementation measures, and ensure effective implementation. Enhance guidance and support, fully leveraging the leading role of the intellectual property protection highlands, to promote overall improvement. Make full use of the integrated media matrix effect, strengthen work publicity through multiple channels, and publicly commend units and individuals with outstanding achievements. Promptly urge improvements for those who perform poorly or have ineffective results.
Please submit the 2026 Intellectual Property Administrative Protection Work Summary to the Intellectual Property Protection Department of the National Intellectual Property Administration by January 5, 2027. In case of any major matters, new situations, or new problems, please report them in accordance with the procedures promptly.
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