Recently, the Supreme People’s Court made a second-instance judgment on a computer software copyright infringement case, rejecting the appeal of the alleged infringer and upholding the first-instance judgment made by the Suzhou Intermediate People’s Court. In this case, the copyrighted software was formed based on the secondary development of an open-source framework which is subject to the General Public License 2.0 of the Free Software Foundation (GPLv2), but the copyright holder did not make the source code publicly accessible after the secondary development.

After more than three years, a software license agreement dispute arbitration case was concluded with the claimant, a well-known multinational software company, withdrawing all its claims against the respondent, a large enterprise represented by DeHeng.

On April 25, 2023, the Shanghai Higher People's Court held a press conference to announce the top ten cases of intellectual property protection in 2022, and the case of Zuiko (Shanghai) Corporation, represented by DeHeng lawyers, where it sued a company in Huangshan and seven defendants including one surnamed Fang for infringement of its trade secrets. The case was also included into the top ten cases of intellectual property protection in Shanghai in 2022 voted by the Office of the Shanghai Joint Conference on Intellectual Property Protection.

The unfair-competition dispute between Meituan and ele.me, represented by DeHeng, has been recently concluded after the first trial by Wenzhou Intermediate Court and the second trial by the Higher People's Court of Zhejiang in the past nearly two years. DeHeng lawyers safeguarded the lawful rights of the client and won the desired outcome.

On March 31, Tianjin Intellectual Property Court held a public hearing of the case in which the defendant surnamed Zhao was accused of infringing on trade secrets. This was the first trade secret infringement case in China where the loss amount was determined by reasonable license fee after the implementation of the Judicial Interpretation on Handling Criminal Cases of Infringing on Intellectual Property (3) jointly issued by the Supreme People's Court and the Supreme People's Procuratorate.

Recently, the Supreme People's Court made a retrial judgment on disputes over infringement upon trademark rights and unfair competition, revoking the second-instance judgment made by the Higher People's Court of Hubei Province and affirming the main first-instance judgment of the Wuhan Intermediate People's Court. Lawyers Lyu Chengwei and Xu Wenyan from DeHeng's Suzhou Office represented the retrial applicant and won the case in the Supreme People's Court.