This study aims to ascertain the influence of R&D human resources on innovation capability by evaluating the innovation capability of growth enterprise market‐listed companies using a stepped‐regression analysis. It also employs various models to assess incremental and radical innovation capabilities and obtain evaluation scores. The findings show a significant positive correlation between the size of R&D human resources investment and innovation capability, and a significant negative correlation between the intensity of R&D human resources investment and comprehensive innovation capability. The R&D personnel's number improves incremental innovation capability more significantly than radical innovation capability, which is better incentivized by higher salaries.

While civil litigation (CL) was expected to play a major role in resolving patent infringement disputes, administrative adjudication (AA) has become the preferred channel for patentees to protect their rights in China since 2015. The number of AA cases significantly increased during the study period of 2010–2021. Our research finds that AA does not particularly favor patentees. By comparing the rules of CL and AA, we also find that low cost and high efficiency are the two major advantages of AA. Besides these traits, the motivations for patentees to initiate AA are the lack of risks in AA procedure and its valuable outcomes. Understanding the real motivation for the application of AA could be a reference for improving the patent infringement dispute system.