Supreme People's Court to Draft Guidelines for AI Dispute Cases, Regulating Handling of Cutting-edge Issues like AI-generated Content

China's Supreme People's Court recently released the '2025 Intellectual Property Judicial Protection Status of Chinese Courts'. In 2025, 552,600 new intellectual property cases were accepted and 539,600 concluded. Among them, 64,000 first-instance civil cases involving technical intellectual property were concluded, with key protection for technologies in integrated circuits, industrial mother machines, basic software and other fields, achieving remarkable results.

The court has strengthened intellectual property trials in emerging fields, properly handling cutting-edge civil cases involving AI-generated content and AI model parameters; 908 disputes related to data ownership and transactions were concluded, a year-on-year increase of 25.6%. Currently, the Supreme People's Court is stepping up drafting guidelines for handling AI-related dispute cases to promote the healthy and orderly development of AI in a beneficial, safe and fair direction.