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[Law Interpretation by case] Can LEGO minifigures be registered as a three-dimensional trademark?
2025-05-05The LEGO Group filed an application for registering No. 34022807 three-dimensional trademark (referred to as the disputed trademark) to the CNIPA, designating it for use in the 28th category of commodities like "toys, toy tricks". The CNIPA rejected its application for registration due to the disput -
Block-chain technology provides scientific and technological support for copyright protection and operation
2025-05-05At present, theNCACissued the "Report on the Development of Chinas Online Copyright Industry in 2020" (hereinafter referred to as the "Report"). According to the report, Chinas online copyright industry market in 2020 broke one trillion yuan for the first time, a year-on-year increase of 23.6%. Mean -
Attribution of rights on the patent application by using other's technical secrets without permission
2025-05-05——(2020) Supreme People’s Court Final Civil Judgment No. 871In the case of patent attribution dispute between the appellant Tianjin Qingsong Huayao Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as Qingsong Company) and the appellee Huabei Medicine Hebei Huamin Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd. (hereinaft -
Interim measures for the processing of related examination businesses regarding the implementation of the revised Patent Law
2025-05-05Article 1 Since June 1, 2021 (including that date, the same below), the patent applicant may submit the patent application requesting for protection of the product’s partial industrial design, in accordance with Article 2 Paragraph 4 of the revised Patent Law, in the form of paper or offline electro -
The handling of implementer of the horizontal agreements demanding other implementers’ compensation for the so-called economic losses
2025-05-05——(2020)Supreme People’s Court Final Civil Judgment No.1382 Monopoly Case of "Brick and Tile Association"In the monopoly dispute case including appellant Sichuan Yibin Wuqiao Building Materials Industry Co., Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as Wuqiao Company), Cao Peijun, Yibin Brick and Tile Associati