Ending a dispute over the trademark Laimou that has lingered for nearly a decade, leading Chinese liquor maker Moutai announced on March 15 that it had won the suit and warned any infringing competitors to cease using the label. While the trademark regist

The Supreme People's Court recently handled the near eight-year trademark dispute filed by Brooks Brothers, an American garment brand, after they failed in the trademark case against the defendant, a British-based garment company, in second instance judgm

Ending a long-running intellectual property dispute in the tire and rubber industries, the Shanghai Higher People's Court (the Court) on October 12 rejected a final appeal by SI Group Inc. and SI (Shanghai) Co., Ltd. regarding two landmark patent applicat

A second ruling from the Higher People's Court of Zhejiang province has not ended a prolonged trademark dispute between famous French vintner Castel Freres SAS and Panati Wine Co in Shanghai. After losing the largest trademark suit in China's wine industr

After a four-year battle, a Chinese company recently prevailed over a noted French vintner to win the largest trademark lawsuit in the wine industry to date. The Higher People's Court in Zhejiang ruled that Castel Freres SAS must pay 33.73 million yuan ($

Group buying has achieved rapid development after entering the Chinese market. Though fierce competitions led to the integration and reorganization among thousands of group buying sites, the transaction volume of group buying still reached 21.632 billion

A Chinese local convenience store WOWO, which is located in Chengdu, Sichuan province, recently encounters a trademark similarity case. The three-color stripe WOWO trademark was challenged by Thailand IP Office on the ground of similarity with their natio

Cartier has sued the operator of China's largest online supermarket, Yihaodian, and two Beijing companies for trademark infringements. The luxury jewelry and watch manufacturer said the companies caused irreparable harm to its brand. The lawsuit against Y

Descendants of Li Guangdi dispute use of forebear's name in trademarks, Zhang Zhao reports. For eight consecutive days six men, most of them aged, stayed at Wang Qing's tea shop in Anxi county of Fujian province to protest the shopkeeper's registration of

The China Trademark Office of State Administration for Industry and Commerce first refused, with respect to our Indian client, the trademark application for the mark E Construction Equipment. Then our client successfully asked for a review of its trademar