On May 31, following their participation in the China–Europe Intellectual Property Judicial Protection Seminar hosted by the Sino-French Center of Tongji University, a delegation led by Klaus Bach, Presiding Judge and Reporting Judge of the Tenth Civil Senate of the German Federal Court of Justice, paid a visit to the Shanghai Intellectual Property Court. The delegation included judges from the German Federal Court of Justice, the Munich Local Division of the Unified Patent Court, the Munich I Regional Court, and the Düsseldorf Regional Court.

The delegation was received by Liu Junhua, Vice President of the Shanghai Intellectual Property Court. Representatives from the Intellectual Property Division and the Foreign Affairs Office of the Shanghai High People’s Court, as well as heads of relevant departments of the Shanghai Intellectual Property Court and the Shanghai No. 3 Intermediate People’s Court, also attended the meeting.

The visiting judges toured the case-filing hall, litigation service center, smart storage facility, digital display hall, standard courtrooms, and internet courtrooms, gaining an understanding of the Shanghai Intellectual Property Court’s exploratory practices and innovative measures in advancing the development of a one-stop litigation service center and digital court construction. They also visited the sky garden, stepped seminar room, and library, experiencing the integration of modernization, human-centered design, and openness of the court.

During the symposium, Vice President Liu Junhua extended a warm welcome to the visiting judges and provided a brief introduction to the Shanghai Intellectual Property Court’s institutional structure, jurisdiction, adjudication operations, and judicial team development. The visiting judges expressed their sincere appreciation for the warm reception and spoke highly of the court’s advanced modern facilities. They noted their strong impression of the average number of cases concluded per judge and introduced the organizational structure, jurisdiction, staffing, patent case adjudication mechanisms, and recent adjudicatory practice and developments of the German Federal Court of Justice and the Unified Patent Court.

The two sides engaged in in-depth exchanges and discussions on topics including the patent case adjudication mechanisms of the Unified Patent Court and German courts, as well as mechanisms for fact-finding on technical issues.

This exchange further deepened communication and cooperation between the two sides in the field of intellectual property judicial protection and contributed to mutual learning and common progress in areas such as specialized adjudication and digital transformation.