A Chinese company Guangxi Liuzhou Cigar Company filed a trademark application for BAOMA (BMW in Chinese characters) in class 34, on July 26, 2002,covering tobacco and cigars. BMW AG filed an opposition against the mark, when it was published, on the groun...

After the U.S. technology company Apple Inc. settling iPad trademark dispute with a Chinese company by paying $60 million of settlement, it receives more IP-related lawsuits in China. A Chinese household chemical products company, Jiangsu Snow Leopard Hou...

A Chinese provincial court announced in its official website on July 2, 2012 that the U.S. technology company Apple Inc. had settled a trademark dispute with a Chinese company by paying $60 million of settlement. According to the announcement, the settlem...

2012 AIPPI China/Asia IP Seminar was held successfully in Beijing from April 10 to 12, 2012, under the joint sponsorship of the International Association for the Protection of Intellectual Property (AIPPI) and its China branch (AIPPI China), the State Int...

On April 11, 2012, we received the Civil Judgment [(2011) Jin-Gao-Min-San-Zhong-Zi No. 20] made by Tianjin Municipal Higher People...

The China Trademark Office and the Trademark Review and Adjudication Board have improved trademark examination efficiency substantially in the past 4 years. Nowadays, examination period for trademark applications has been shortened to 10 months and durati...