The UPC’s Patent Mediation and Arbitration Centre (PMAC) has made patent alternative dispute resolution (ADR) a live topic in Europe (June 2, 2026 LinkedIn post by ip fray).
China has no PMAC equivalent. Its relevant pathways are more dispersed: mediation may be connected to courts, administrative handling, or professional mediation organizations; arbitration depends on party agreement and domestic institutional capacity; and WIPO-linked services provide a foreign-facing institutional layer for some cross-border IP disputes.
This article maps those pathways and explains how they may matter in Chinese patent disputes.
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