In order to better serve and guarantee the construction of an innovative country, in 2020, the Supreme People's Procuratorate set up an intellectual property procuratorial office, which implemented centralized and unified performance of intellectual property criminal, civil and administrative procuratorial work, and carried out pilot work of centralized and unified performance of intellectual property procuratorial work in nine provinces and cities including Beijing and Shanghai, so as to form joint efforts of procuratorial supervision and protect innovation-driven development according to law.

From January to June, 2021, in terms of criminal prosecution, procuratorial organs nationwide prosecuted 6,017 people for intellectual property infringement crimes, up 12.6% year-on-year, and the prosecution rate reached 91.8%, which was 6.2 percentage points higher than the overall criminal crimes. The criminal cases of infringement of intellectual property rights reflect two characteristics: first, the crimes mainly concentrate on counterfeiting registered trademarks and selling counterfeit registered trademarks, wherein 2,676 people and 2,138 people were prosecuted respectively, accounting for 80% of the total number of prosecutions; second, the cases were concentrated mainly in economically developed areas in the southeast, among which 1463 people were prosecuted in Guangdong, 987 in Shanghai, 416 in Zhejiang, 371 in Henan and 341 in Jiangsu, accounting for 59.5% of the total prosecutions in China.

From January to June 2021, in terms of civil procuratorial work, a total of 100 civil effective judgments and mediation supervision cases involving intellectual property and competition disputes were accepted, up 88.7% year-on-year, which include 63 intellectual property ownership and infringement disputes, accounting for 63% of the total, and 28 intellectual property contract disputes, accounting for 28%. Five protests were filed against the handled effective judgment supervision cases, and one retrial procuratorial suggestion was put forward.