The South China Morning Post reports that Guangdong’s provincial capital Guangzhou as well as its major cities Shenzhen and Zhuhai have each submitted proposals to become pilot venues for the new court. With this in mind I used law firm Rouse’s excellent CIELA database to put together this comparison of IP litigation statistics from competent courts in Beijing, Guangzhou and Shanghai (the three jurisdictions with the highest number of IP judgments). The statistics include selected data on infringement, contractual and recognition of rights disputes relating to copyright, patent, trademark and unfair competition cases, at both first and second instance, gleaned from CIELA’s records of a total 25,877 Chinese IP cases.