On March 19, 2025, the Chinese government issued “Regulations of the State Council on the Settlement of Foreign-Related Intellectual Property Disputes,” set to take effect on May 1, 2025.
This underscores China’s growing commitment to address intellectual property (IP) disputes with foreign entities. While litigators and companies are evaluating the impact of these new regulations and the recent changes in US tariff policy on IP disputes between Chinese and foreign companies, understanding the landscape of IP cases filed in the US courts involving Chinese companies—and their resolutions—would assist both US and Chinese companies to make more informed decisions regarding IP protection and dispute resolution.
This insight reviews trends in patent, trademark, and trade secret disputes involving Chinese companies in the US from 2021 to 2023, based primarily on data from three annual investigation reports published by the China Intellectual Property Society (CIPS).[1] It also compares these trends to overall statistics for IP cases in US federal district courts.
[1] CIPS (中国知识产权研究会) is an affiliate of China National Intellectual Property Administration (国家知识产权局), which is the primary intellectual property regulator in China. The CIPS reports do not provide data related to copyright disputes.
