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  • Weekly China Brand Protection News – February 13, 2025

    2025-02-13
    Weekly China Brand Protection News February 13, 2025 AI Platform Held Liable for User-Generated Ultraman Copyright Infringement Images In September 2024, the Hangzhou Internet Court issued a first-instance judgment in its first case involving copyright infringement by a generative AI platform. The court found the defendant, a Hangzhou-based AI technology company, liable for contributory infrin...

  • Weekly China Brand Protection News – February 8, 2025

    2025-02-08
    Weekly China Brand Protection News February 8, 2025 1. DeepSeek’s China Trademark Registration Status Deepseek trademark owner is Hangzhou Deepseek AI Fundamental Research Co., Ltd., established on July 17, 2023. The founder, Liang Wenfeng, previously founded High-Frequency Quant, a well-known quantitative hedge fund that utilizes AI to analyze financial data and make trading decisions. The fu...

  • Weekly China Brand Protection News – January 18, 2025

    2025-02-08
    Weekly China Brand Protection News January 18, 2025 1. Supreme People’s Court: A Trademark Should be Invalidated for Damaging Prior Domain Name Rights and Unfairly Preempting Prior Used Trademark with Certain Influence In a retrial involving Hangzhou Huishu Zhitong Technology Co., Ltd. (“Huishu Zhitong”), the CNIPA, and the third party Hengsheng Technologies Inc. (“Heng...

  • Specialist chapter: Opposition trends in China reveal CNIPA crackdown on trademark squatting

    2025-01-14

    In recent years, the China National Intellectual Property Administration (CNIPA) has significantly bolstered its efforts to crack down on trademark squatting and protect prior rights in opposition proceedings, yielding positive outcomes. Recent practices suggest that the CNIPA increasingly relied on prior trademark registrations or catch-all provisions to curb bad faith filings in trademark oppositions.

  • Weekly China Brand Protection News – January 9, 2025

    2025-01-09
    Weekly China Brand Protection News January 9, 2025 1. “Trademark Agency” should be judged based on the applicant’s business status at the time of the trademark application Le Tengda (Shenzhen) Daily Necessities Co., Ltd. (“Le Tengda”) is the registrant of the “OHROPAX” trademark (Reg. No. 22741287) (“Disputed Mark”). OHROPAX GMBH (“Ohropax”) file...

  • Weekly China Brand Protection News – January 3, 2025

    2025-01-03
    Weekly China Brand Protection News January 3, 2025 The SPC affirmed the lower court’s decision to invalidate Beijing Miantian’s “Muji in Chinese” trademark in a retrial decision At the end of 2024, the Supreme People’s Court rendered a retrial decision on the administrative dispute regarding the invalidation of the “Muji in Chinese (無印良品)” trademark with reg. no. 16999994A (“Disputed...

  • Weekly China Brand Protection News – December 27, 2024

    Weekly China Brand Protection News December 27, 2024 1. Reversed in the Supreme Court Retrial! Jingmen Laobaixing Company infringed trademark rights of Changsha Laobaixing Pharmacy established half-year earlier, its prior use defense was not supported The Supreme People’s Court made a retrial judgment on the trademark infringement and unfair competition dispute case between Laobaixing Ph...

  • Weekly China Brand Protection News – December 19, 2024

    2024-12-19
    Weekly China Brand Protection News December 19, 2024 1. Bighit Music challenged the CNIPA’s invalidation decision on a squatted “BTS” mark Bighit Music Co., Ltd. appealed an invalidation decision to the Beijing IP Court against the CNIPA regarding the “BTS” mark in Class 25 for clothing, jackets, etc. The court revoked the CNIPA’s invalidation decision and ordered the CNIPA to re-issue the dec...

  • Weekly China Brand Protection News – December 13, 2024

    Weekly China Brand Protection News December 13, 2024 1. Huawei prevailed in a trademark infringement lawsuit with CNY 5 million in damages Recently, the Guangdong High Court issued a final judgment in a trademark infringement and unfair competition lawsuit involving Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. (“Huawei”) and the defendants Zhongshan Songling Appliance Gas Co., Ltd. (“Songling”) and Chengdu H...

  • Weekly China Brand Protection News – December 7, 2024

    2024-12-07
    Weekly China Brand Protection News December 7, 2024 Copying “CHARLES & KEITH” Bag Logos and Designs Constitutes Trademark Infringement and Unfair Competition Basic Facts of the Case Charles & Keith International Pte. Ltd. (“Charles & Keith Singapore”) entered the Chinese market in 2010. Charles & Keith Singapore owns trademarks reg. no. 3216114, reg. n...
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