In 2013, the patent administrative system all over China has dealt with 16,227 cases in total, demonstrating a 79.8% year on year increase, including 5,056 patent dispute cases with year on year increase of 101.4%.  In the meantime, the growth rate of newly accepted intellectual property cases of first instance trial at the magistrate's courts has dropped from 45.99% to 1.33% in 2013. 2014-08-07