Patent infringement evaluation and liability of e-commerce platforms in China

In China, the rapid development of science and technology has greatly changed people’s daily life, and online shopping has become an indispensable part of life. According to the report on China's E-commerce Development 2018–2019, released by the 5th Global E-commerce Conference, ‘China's e-commerce trading totaled 31.63 trillion yuan in 2018’.1 However, at the same time, the phenomenon of patent infringement has become very prominent in the Internet field. According to the New Progress Report on China's Intellectual Property Protection and Business Environment (2018), the State Intellectual Property Office investigated as many as 33 000 patent infringement and counterfeiting cases, handled 4.12 million pieces of illegal and illegal information and closed 241 fake websites in 2018. Against the backdrop of frequent patent infringement on e-commerce platforms, many Chinese scholars propose that e-commerce platforms should be required to assume a certain degree of responsibility for performing an evaluation of...