Supreme People's Procuratorate: 25,160 people prosecuted for intellectual property rights violations in 2025

The Supreme People’s Procuratorate recently released the “White Paper on Intellectual Property Procuratorial Work (2025)” and for the first time launched an English version on the Supreme People’s Procuratorate’s official English website.
The white paper comprehensively showcases, through data, charts, cases, and other forms, the positive results of procuratorial organs across the country in serving the national innovation-driven development strategy and creating a first-class business environment that is market-oriented, rule of law-based, and internationalized.
The white paper shows that in 2025, procuratorial organs at all levels will fully and accurately implement the criminal policy of leniency and severity, punish crimes infringing on intellectual property rights according to law, handle and review 11,341 cases involving 25,160 persons accused of infringing on intellectual property rights, prosecute 9,135 cases involving 19,102 persons, and not prosecute 5,105 persons.
In addition, nationwide procuratorial organs also handled 1,251 civil intellectual property cases; 1,795 administrative intellectual property cases; accepted 741 clues related to public interest litigation in the field of intellectual property, and filed 612 cases. (CCTV News)