This article is about the protection of national sovereign signs, deceptive judgments, distinctive judgments, well-known trademark protection, and the consequences of malicious hoarding of trademarks in China’s trademark protection legal system, and from the perspective of judicial practice, it syst

China National Intellectual Property Administration BulletinNo.481China has deposited the instrument of accession to the Hague Agreement on the International Registration of Industrial Designs (1999 text) (hereinafter referred to as the Hague Agreement) with the WIPO on February 5, 2022. It will com

On April 26, 2022, "Chinese City Intellectual Property Index Report 2022" ("City Intellectual Property Index Report") was released in Beijing by the Research Group, which shows the top 10 intellectual property index in 2021 are: Beijing, Shenzhen, Shanghai, Guangzhou, Nanjing, Hangzhou, Chengdu, Wuh

On April 15, the Beijing Intellectual Property Court publicly sentenced the case of first instance in which the plaintiff Chugai Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd. sued the defendant Wenzhou Haihe Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd. to confirm whether it fell into the scope of patent protection. According to the trial o

In accordance with the provisions of Paragraph 2 of Article 49 of China’s Trademark Law and Article 65 of the Regulations for the Implementation of the Trademark Law, when a registered trademark becomes the common name of its approved products，any unit or individual may file an application to the Tr