Supreme Court: Currently drafting opinions on properly handling disputes involving artificial intelligence in accordance with the law

Golden Finance reports that on April 20th, according to CCTV, today, the Supreme People’s Court released the “Judicial Protection of Intellectual Property Rights in Chinese Courts,” providing a comprehensive overview of the overall situation of intellectual property rights judicial protection work in 2025. In 2025, the people’s courts received a total of 552.6k new intellectual property cases and concluded 539.6k cases. The courts have strengthened their adjudication of intellectual property rights in emerging fields, properly handling civil cases involving AI-generated content, AI model parameters, and other frontier issues; they concluded 908 cases related to data ownership and trading disputes, a year-on-year increase of 25.6%. The Supreme People’s Court is actively drafting opinions on properly handling disputes involving artificial intelligence according to law, striving to promote the healthy and orderly development of artificial intelligence in a beneficial, safe, and fair direction. In 2025, the people’s courts received 11,066 new first-instance foreign-related intellectual property cases, an increase of 34.1% year-on-year.