Malicious trademark registration has long been a primary concern for trademark holders. The Chinese Trademark Law has played a crucial role in countering malicious trademark registrations and upholding market order since its implementation on March 1 1983

According to the relevant provisions of Chinese Trademark Law, the trademark registrant should actively and properly use their registered trademark. If a registered trademark has not been used for three consecutive years without justified reason, any one

The pre-registration mechanism (pre-registration) has been established for years by the Beijing Intellectual Property Court to accept intellectual property cases of the foreign, or Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan plaintiffs. The purpose is to solve the diffic

Recently, the Trademark Office of the CNIPA issued the guides to stay trademark review cases, which outlines seven specific situations for mandatory stay and three situations for optional stay, aiming to facilitate flexible operation in trademark review p

The Supreme People's Court of China issued the Opinions on Promoting the Reform of Separating Complicated Administrative Litigation Proceedings from Simple Ones on May 14, 2021. This judicial interpretation specifically stipulates in Article 2 that admini

In order to save administrative resources, improve administrative efficiency, and protect the certainty of trademark allowance and confirmation, Article 62 of the Implementing Regulations of the Trademark Law stipulates the Res judicata, which means that

Recently, the CNIPA issued a notice on Expediting Examination of Post-Registration Business such as Trademark Modification, Assignment, and Renewal, further clarifying the scope of trademark business that can be expedited and the nine situations in which

On April 23, 2019, the president of the Peoples Republic of China, Jinping Xi, signed the Order of the President No. 29 and issued the revisions to the Trademark Law of the Peoples Republic of China and the Anti-Unfair Competition Law. This has been the f

Original equipment manufacturer (OEM), in this article, refers to a business model in which a domestic manufacturer in China, under the commission of an overseas company, processes and manufactures products labeled with overseas trademarks. These trademar

In practice, to overcome a cited trademark that has been registered for more than three years, trademark applicants usually consider filing a cancellation application against the cited trademark on the grounds of non-use for three consecutive years. In ca