In recent days, the shenzhen city intellectual property awareness week event and the joint meeting on intellectual property rights was successfully held in 2026, at which the shenzhen city market supervisory authority (hmmma) published the 10 major events of intellectual property rights in shenzhen city in 2025. The 10 major events highlighted innovations, best practices and typical experiences in shenzhen in building a model city and a national intellectual property protection highland in a national intellectual property market, highlighting the success of the development of intellectual property in shenzhen. The 10 major incidents of intellectual property rights in shenzhen city in 2025 were:
The deep hong kong innovation cluster is the first global leader
Shenzhen has launched a number of initiatives to develop high-quality intellectual property-enabling industries, continuously improving enterprise-based, market-oriented mechanisms for the creation of high-quality intellectual property, building 50 new high-value patent-breeding centres, conducting 32 priority industrial patent-navigation projects and developing 20 municipal intellectual property companies. The twenty-fifth china patent prize was awarded 81 awards in shenzhen, nine of which were gold awards, and the number of pct international patent applications was the highest in the country for 22 consecutive years. Domestic patent authorizations were the highest in the country for 8 consecutive years. Trademark registrations were the highest in the country for 3 consecutive years. In 2025, the shenzhen-hong kong-guangzhou innovation cluster surpassed tokyo-yokohama for the first time in the ranking of the global innovation index (gii) world's 100-power innovation cluster, achieving a historic leap from the second to the first global level in five consecutive years。
Ii. Ten lessons learned from the construction of the shenzhen intellectual property market and the protection of highlands were disseminated nationally
The shenzhen national intellectual property authority (ipc) initiative is building demonstration cities and protecting highlands, deepening comprehensive reforms in the area of intellectual property, strengthening the quality of intellectual property creation, protection of standards, efficient use, high-energy services and high-level openness. Ten innovative experiences have been replicated throughout the country. Two empirical practices, such as the creation of a rights-based landscape abroad, were selected for the fourth wave of intellectual property power-building cases, five for the rules for the protection of the digital economy, were selected for the best priority urban protection reform cases, and three for the patent roll exercise, for example, were selected for the conversion of patents to good practices in the national intellectual property office. These empirical practices cover the entire chain of creation, application, protection, management and services, and provide replicable experiences for national intellectual property work。
Iii. Introduction of new rules for judicial protection of the digital economy in shenzhen
The shenzhen intermediate people's court, based on its adjudicative function, closely follows the institutional mechanism of “investigation and research - case demonstration - provision of rules - institutional innovation”, produced the opinion on strengthening the judicial protection of digital interests as a service for guaranteeing the high quality development of the digital economy, and published a series of questions and answers on the french-analyst web, providing comprehensive guidance on new types of digital economy disputes, such as data, artificial intelligence, algorithms, etc., in terms of enhancing the quality of supply of data elements, enhancing the protection of data property rights, promoting the orderly flow of data, strengthening the governance of data violations, deepening the innovation of judicial enforcement mechanisms, promoting the deeper integration of judicial rules for the protection of intellectual property rights in the digital economy with the innovative integration of judicial mechanisms, the deep integration of service delivery economies and technological innovation in digital intelligence, and providing a replicable shenzin programme for high-quality development of the digital economy throughout the country。
Shenzhen's first selected country pilot in the field of intellectual property rights to optimize the business environment and a pilot in the financial ecological integration of intellectual property
Shenzhen has been selected as a pilot country in the field of intellectual property to optimize the business environment and a pilot country in the field of financial ecology of intellectual property, with a two-wheel drive for high-quality development of intellectual property work. The implementation of 18 concrete initiatives to optimize the business environment in the area of intellectual property rights and the “one city together” reform innovation project, the first new model of customs protection of intellectual property rights “for the mediation of the public good” was launched nationwide, and the ai-enabled fashion platform for the design of copyright-encrypted data encryption was selected for the first national “assys+” public service application of intellectual property rights, with guangdong province as its only topline. The innovative introduction of the pyramid mortgage finance series of products, the establishment of the country's first overseas intellectual property insurance consortium, the creation of the twin cross-border model of cross-border insurance of intellectual property + cross-border subscribement of offshore funds, the first data-based intellectual property services trust throughout the province, the annual registration of patents and trademarks over $59 billion, the cumulative issuance of 121 pieces of intellectual property securitization products of a total size of $25. 7 billion, and the continuous national scale。
V. Investigation by the shenzhen city public security department of a major violation of a branded mobile phone's cross-provincial trademark
In april 2025, the city public security bureau successfully uncovered a case where a well-known branded mobile phone had been fraudulently registered by digging deep into closed cases. The group established production sites in guangdong, guangxi and hunan, forming a complete chain of counterfeit industries. The city public security bureau, acting in conjunction with the various police forces, has conducted simultaneous cross-provincial strikes, successfully destroying two well-established, chain-based fraudulent criminal gangs, and has seized a large number of counterfeit products and accessories, which are in large amounts, effectively cutting off channels for the circulation of counterfeit products. The successful investigation of this case, which is now at the trial stage, has been a powerful deterrent to criminal offences against intellectual property rights and provides firm guarantees for the protection of the legitimate interests of enterprises and the optimization of the business environment。
Shenzhen has approved the construction of the first national rapid intellectual property rights centre
The shenzhen fukuda (fashion design) centre for the rapid defence of intellectual property (hereinafter referred to as the “quickness centre”) was established with the approval of the national intellectual property agency and successfully approved. The cvc focuses on fashion design industries, building three core services: "quick pre-trial, fast-tracking, fast-tracking, fast-tracking" and "1+3+n" work systems, putting in place a four-pronged integrated protection mechanism for "quick pre-trial + co-protection + integrated services + industry protection" to provide services such as patent pre-trialing, diversification of intellectual property disputes, protection of rights and guidance on the protection of intellectual property rights overseas. After operationalization, the csc has reduced the patent authorization cycle for skin design from four to eight months to a maximum of seven working days, increasing its effectiveness by more than 80 per cent, effectively breaking down the malaise of fashion design for industrial rights protection, slow rights protection, rights protection, etc., and improving shenzhen's “fast protection” of intellectual property rights to provide a strong support for the high-quality development of fashion design industries in the sit zone。
Shenzhen successfully processed the first standard necessary patent administrative decision
In march 2025, a company filed a patent tort dispute with the shenzhen city market supervisory authority (the intellectual property authority) over its standard patent infringement dispute with a technical company. The shenzhen market supervisory authority (hmm) promptly conducted investigations into evidence and tort judgements, organized more than 20 rounds of talks between the parties and over 60 rounds of detailed consultations on the basis of the determination that the violation had been committed, which eventually led to a move from confrontation to cooperation, and in december 2025 organized an agreement between the parties on the settlement of patent infringement disputes and a cross-licensing of patents, which was successfully resolved after nine months. The case insists on a win-win combination of administrative protection and synergy, linking efficient administrative decisions with soft mediation in order to promote peace and settle disputes, promote corporate cooperation for win-win solutions, fill gaps in the shenzhen standard of necessary patent administration cases, and explore a model of mandatory patent administrative protection that could be replicated。
Shenzhen was the first to open a patent pre-trial service for hong kong's creative subjects
With the approval of the national intellectual property authority, the shenzhen intellectual property protection centre has officially opened a patent pre-trial service for hong kong's innovation owners. Hong kong enterprises, universities and research institutes have direct access to the shenzhen protection centre's rapid pre-trial services in the four main sectors of new energy sources, the internet, high-end equipment manufacturing and jewellery processing. The licensing cycle for invention patents has been reduced to about three months, accelerating the patenting of hong kong's scientific and technological achievements and further facilitating the integration of hong kong's innovative resources into the national development agenda. To date, more than 170 patents from hong kong's innovation owners have achieved rapid distribution through the “pretrial + pre-trial” channel, which has given a strong impetus to the rapid conversion and industrialization of hong kong's scientific research findings in the interior。
The international intellectual property institute of the university of beijing has been formally established at the latest
The national intellectual property agency and the international institute of intellectual property, established jointly at beijing university, landed in shenzhen. The institute is based on the construction of the shenzhen graduate school at beijing university, making full use of the fundamentals of law of beijing university and the distinctive features of the international law institute, the unique location of shenzhen, and the synergy between north and south in the creation of a high-level platform for the development of internationally influential intellectual property talent that brings together education, scientific research, think tanks and international cooperation. The international institute of intellectual property (iip) landed in shenzhen, which is a key vehicle for serving the national intellectual property power strategy and supporting the construction of the great bay region. The college works to build high-level, front-line theoretical and policy research centres in the field of intellectual property, a platform for cooperation in high-level international exchanges, to promote the deeper integration of intellectual property rules with the local science and technology industry, and to help build an internationally influential intellectual property high ground in shenzhen。
X. Strategic cooperation on the rights of music players with the china association for music copyright
Under the guidance of the copyright administration of the ministry of chinese advertising and the chinese copyright association, the music and recreational group (known as the "tening music") and the chinese music copyright association (known as the "audiences of music") have entered into strategic cooperation on music copyright. Through the integration of the professional strengths of aca in the area of copyright management and advocacy services and its technical skills and experience in the management of platforms, both parties have worked together to improve the mechanisms for the authorization of musical works, to promote the conformity of their content, to provide more transparent and efficient copyright services to creators, to effectively guarantee the legitimate rights, interests and returns of the creators and authors of the works, and to contribute to the healthy development of copyrights in the music industry. This is both a positive response to the strategy of the “copyright power” and an in-depth exercise in the normative development of the digital music industry。
Shenzhen evening journalist lee chao, correspondent go nam
