The client, a manufacturer of sports-related products, faced a bad-faith trademark and business name registration by an infringer operating eyewear product through multiple entities. Confronted with the opposing party’s valid trademark registration—which blocked the client’s product launch and constrained its business strategy, the team advised a comprehensive litigation strategy combining trademark invalidation, infringement litigation, and simultaneous new trademark applications.

Despite the challenge of limited evidence regarding the client’s notoriety, the team proactively gathered evidence and precisely coordinated parallel proceedings, ensuring these procedures reinforced one another to achieve a comprehensive victory. In the administrative proceedings, the CNIPA and two-instance courts swiftly invalidated the opposing party’s trademark. In the civil litigation, assets totalling CNY 2.5 million belonging to the opposing company and individuals were successfully preserved. The final judgment ordered the defendants to cease using the infringing trademark and business name, holding the company and its individuals jointly liable for CNY 2,000,000 in damages.

This case is a typical example of how our firm represented a client’s interests with a comprehensive litigation strategy, through a dual-track approach of administrative and civil procedures.

In a trademark infringement lawsuit, we represented the plaintiff and filed a civil litigation against four defendants.

Through strategic on-site investigations, we located the defendants to secure a favourable forum, a position that proved advantageous from jurisdiction through to damages determination. During litigation, the defendants argued "legitimate use" based on their own registered trademarks and claimed the requested damages were excessive.

The team systematically cited precedent judgements from the Supreme People’s Court and various local courts and successfully refuted the defendants’ "legitimate use" defence. To determine the compensation amount, we overcame the difficulty of limited evidence of the client’s trademark rights usage, by conducting in-depth investigations and presenting the court with two approaches to calculate infringement profits, adequately demonstrating the significant scale of the defendants' illicit gains.
Ultimately, the court of first instance fully supported our claims. It ordered the defendants to jointly bear liability for infringement and awarded the client compensatory damages and reasonable expenses totalling over CNY 600,000, achieving a highly favourable result.
The successful outcome of this case demonstrates the team's sophisticated competence in trademark enforcement. They think strategically and act practically.

In the trademark infringement civil lawsuit, we represented the plaintiff, and filed a civil litigation against 6 defendants, who was held liable in the earlier closed criminal case. Facing the practical situation that the core defendants have already been criminally detained, and the civil court found it difficult to organize a trial, the team actively communicated with the judges and the prison administration. The civil court accepted our motions to serve to the prison and proceed a trial in absentia.

Ultimately, the civil court further ordered the defendants to compensate our client 400,000 CNY for civil damages, although the criminal case had already imposed fines ranging from 200,000 to 500,000 CNY on each defendant. After the judgement took effective, we initiated enforcement proceedings, and the 400,000 CNY damage award was successfully recovered to our client in full.

This case sets a valuable precedent for civil litigation against criminally convicted defendants, both substantively and procedurally. The full recovery of CNY 400,000 in civil compensation is particularly noteworthy, especially given that the defendants were already fined hundreds of thousands of CNY in an earlier criminal proceeding. This successful outcome relied on the team’s proactive and innovative strategies in coordinating among the civil court, criminal court, prison, local public security bureau, and the procuratorate.

CCPIT Patent and Trademark Law Office successfully represented a luxury brand in a trademark infringement and unfair competition case. The court recognized the client’s trademark as a well-known trademark in the final judgement. Additionally, this case was distinguished as one of the Top 10 Typical IP Case by the Dalian Intermediate People’s Court in 2023.