Supreme Court: Regulate unfair competition and monopolistic behavior in the field of scientific and technological innovation in accordance with the law

2025-01-07

On the 6th, the Supreme People's Court issued the "Opinions of the Supreme People's Court on Ensuring Technological Innovation with High Quality Trial Services," focusing on prominent issues in trials related to technological innovation and proposing a total of 98 policy measures, including 25 articles, to severely punish behaviors that undermine fair competition and disrupt market order, such as forcing platforms to choose between two options, big data killing, low price dumping, and forced bundling, and to guide the development of platform economy towards openness, innovation, and empowerment. The suggestion is to regulate unfair competition and monopolistic behavior in the field of scientific and technological innovation in accordance with the law, and promote the construction of a unified national market. Properly utilizing the fallback provisions, principle clauses, and legal purpose clauses of the Anti Unfair Competition Law, with the principles of good faith and business ethics as the basic standards, effectively curbing various new types of unfair competition behaviors that imitate and hinder innovation, and providing judicial norms and guidance for the formation of a fair and honest competition order. Opinions on strengthening the judicial protection of scientific and technological innovation entities in accordance with the law, mainly clarifying the rules of judgment from five aspects: determining the ownership of scientific and technological achievements, adjudicating technical contract disputes, optimizing the operation mechanism of innovation entities, and protecting the normal and reasonable flow and performance of scientific and technological personnel. Infringement behavior disrupts the market order of fair competition and affects the social environment for innovation. Give full play to the effectiveness of preservation measures, advance judgments and other institutional mechanisms to ensure that innovation is fully and timely protected; Intensify the application of punitive damages to make infringing acts pay a greater price; By regulating false litigation, malicious litigation, abuse of litigation rights, and cracking down on scientific research fraud in accordance with the law, we will crack down on and curb behaviors that hinder innovation, and promote the formation of a clean and upright scientific research ecosystem. On the same day, the Supreme Court also released eight typical cases in the field of scientific and technological innovation, involving biological medicine, chips, algorithms, data, lithium batteries, new energy, the Internet and other scientific and technological innovation fields, highlighting the firm determination of the people's courts to strictly and impartially protect scientific and technological innovation in accordance with the law and the clear attitude of cracking down on acts that hinder scientific and technological innovation. Tao Kaiyuan, Vice President of the Supreme People's Court, said that in the next step, the People's Court will focus on the important task of building a system and mechanism to support comprehensive innovation, promote self-reliance in high-level science and technology with fair and efficient judicial protection, support and serve Chinese path to modernization with the modernization of judicial work, and provide more powerful judicial services and guarantees for encouraging protection innovation, promoting scientific and technological progress and social development. (New Society)

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