Emerson Electric Co. (the plaintiff), owner of the brand InkSinkErator and 爱适易 (AI SHI YI) in Chinese for food waste processers (see below), sued trademark hijackers for unfair competition, based upon the facts that the accused infringers had tried to reg...

CNIPA issued Standards for Judging General Trademark Violations on December 13, 2021. The Standards take effect on January 1, 2022. It is necessary for the trademark owners to pay attention and stay alert in the course of trademark use so as to avoid trig...

In a recent landmark decision, the Supreme Peoples Court of the PRC (SPC) held that a unique term created in a fictional work is capable of being protected as a prior right to invalidate the same later trademark registration, so long as it meets certain r...

Two years after Chinas new Trademark Law was enacted, Xiaoping Wei of CCPIT Patent Trademark Law Office examines the impact it has had on trademark protection It has been more than two years since the promulgation and implementation of Chinas new Trademar...