Article 49(2) of the Trademark Law of China provides that where a registered trademark has not been used for an uninterrupted period of three years without justified reasons, any entity or individual may request the Trademark Office to cancel the register

According to the Trademark Law of China, the main legal bases for right holders to file a trademark opposition include Article 15 (agent-client relationship, other business relationships), Article 30 (prior registration), Article 31 (prior application), a

How can a right holder defend their legitimate rights when their trademark that has been used in the Chinese market for many years and has gained high popularity is preemptively applied for registration in China by others? If the preemptive trademark appl

Preface Examination on trademark similarity is an important part of trademark examination. If a trademark applicant deliberately makes a slight alteration to a registered trademark of others and then applies for registration of the altered trademark, such

During the prosecution of trademark applications, its quite often that the real users of the trademarks find that others have already preemptively registered the trademarks. Some of the others may be strangers to the real users of the trademarks, while so

In the process of a trademark registration application, the applicant is likely to encounter the obstacle posed by a cited trademark. To remove this obstacle, filing a request for three year non-use registration cancellation (hereinafter referred to as no

A defendant was ordered to pay 30,000 yuan ($4,613) over Entertainment One UK Ltd (eOne)'s losses for Peppa Pig trademark infringement, with Peppa Pig having been declared a well-known trademark in China, according to Shanghai Intellectual Property Court

Recently, two civil mediation documents put an end to a three-year Kangwang trademark infringement and unfair competition case. Under the preside of the Shanghai Intellectual Property Court, Shanghai Runfu Biotechnology Co., Ltd., Shanghai Meihao Investme

The civil judgment of the first instance of trademark infringement dispute between Beijing Yanhuang Yingdong Technology Development Co., Ltd. and Amazon Connect Technology Service (Beijing) Co., Ltd. The Beijing Higher Peoples Court made a first-instance

Recently, Six Continents Hotel Group, owned by the famous hotel management group Intercontinental Hotels Group sued Dujiangyan Yunchang Hotel Management Co., Ltd. for infringement of trademark rights. The case was concluded in the Chengdu Intermediate Peo