Mediation Mechanism for Intellectual Property Disputes in China

Given limited judicial resources and the unique nature of intellectual property rights, mediation has become an efficient option for resolving intellectual property disputes over the past decade. China’s effort to build an effective mediation mechanism for intellectual property disputes has attained remarkable achievements, creating a “grand mediation” work pattern in which people’s mediation, administrative mediation, industrial and professional mediation, and judicial mediation harmoniously coordinate and supplement each other. This article collects and analyses typical mediation cases involving various intellectual property disputes in China, compares the benefits of different types of mediation for settling specific intellectual property disputes, and systematically explains the feasibility and superiority of China’s mediation mechanism in resolving intellectual property disputes. China’s experience can serve as a valuable reference for other jurisdictions in optimizing mediation mechanisms for intellectual property disputes.