In 2022, the Intellectual Property Court of the Supreme People's Court (SPC-IPC) accepted 6,183 technology-related IP and monopoly appeal cases (including 4,405 newly accepted and 1,778 unclosed existing cases) and closed 3,468 cases. The number of SPC-IPC’s newly accepted cases accounted for 86.4% of the second-instance substantive civil and 100% administrative disputes of SPC’s whole cases. In terms of the overall numbers of accepted cases and closed cases plus the average number of cases closed per judge and supporting staff, SPC-IPC ranks first among all SPC’s adjudication divisions. Compared with 2021, the number of total accepted cases (consisting of both newly accepted and unclosed existing cases) increased by 18%.

Since its establishment on January 1, 2019, SPC-IPC has accepted 13,863 technology-related IP and monopoly disputes, 11,148 of which were closed, resulting in an overall clearance rate of 80.4%.

Between 2019 and 2022, a total of 8,436 second-instance substantive civil disputes were accepted, 6,420 of them were closed. For administrative disputes, 3,088 second-instance substantive disputes were accepted, 2,462 of them were closed.

In 2022, the average number of cases accepted (including newly accepted and unclosed existing cases) per judge was 142.5. This was an increase of 16 cases from the previous year. The average case closure was 79.9 cases per judge. Overall, the average adjudication period was 165.2 calendar days. Adjudication duration for jurisdictional disputes was 28.6 calendar days, for second-instance substantive civil disputes it was 179 calendar days, and for second-instance administrative disputes – 215 calendar days. Due to the continued increase in average caseload and the serious impact of the Covid-19 pandemic, the average adjudication period has increased.