[IP CHINA] The importance of protecting your trademark in China shar.es/af29nK Trademark registration may not be enough in certain scenarios to protect all those features that characterize and enhance your product or services. #IPlaw #trademark

A well-know trademark in China is a superhero: has special powers. One of these is to be able to overcome the 5year limitation! Proud to have assisted PIRELLI in this case. 🦾

The Tianjin Intellectual Property Court recently tried a criminal case involving an employee’s infringement of his employer’s trade secrets. The Business Law Digest in China Business Law Journal is compiled with the assistance of Baker McKenzie👇 law.asia/criminal-liabi… #cblj #china #law

Our GossIP is out! The best of the last 2 months cases in one magazine. Download it here hfgip.com/sites/default/… #ip #china #asia #apac #magazine

[IP Law] Lacoste Sues Marks & Spencer for Use of Crocodile Signs shar.es/afqFmU M&S has been accused of infringing the trademark rights of Lacoste by using a crocodile image similar to Lacoste’s distinctive crocodile logo on a range of clothing and homeware accessories.

[IP CHINA] TOILETPAPER: the “new” lack of distinctiveness shar.es/afsjNA TOILETPAPER trademark registration has been rejected by the Chinese Trademark Office (CNIPA) on the basis of lack of distinctiveness (art. 10 Chinese Trademark Law – “TML”)

[IP CHINA] Yipinshi Case: Copyright against Trademark Squatting​ shar.es/aftyUs When thinking to copyright we immediately link to books, videos, music, and then it is not easy to see the connection with trademark squatting. 4 takeaways from a Chinese case.

[IP CHINA] "Blue sky" against trademark agency illegal practices in China shar.es/afG6fw CNIPA launched a ‘Blue Sky’ project in 2019 aimed at regulating illegal practices in the patent agency industry. Now CNIPA has extended the project to cover trademark agencies.

[IP World] What does a Position Trademark protect? shar.es/afGlxF The Brazilian Patent and Trademark Office (BPTO) began accepting position trademark requests in October 2021, following internal discussion of this new presentation type. But what's a position TMK?

[IP ASIA] A Noodles Trademark Battle in Singapore shar.es/afhkNS The IPOS ruled the noodle shop operator’s children had a right to register trademarks pertaining to the name of their father’s noodle shop, despite opposition from the operator’s former business partners.

[IP CHINA] Bless to Tommy Hilfiger, Yemen said shar.es/afhTtc In 2018 Hilfiger filed a tmk application for a stripe logo in Class 25. The CNIPA rejected it because the mark was similar to the national flag of the Republic of Yemen, therefore forbidden from registration.

[IP China] Web celebrity Li Ziqi is not the owner of her trademark shar.es/af4t2H As Li Ziqi is her stage name, this case is a pure trademark case. If the trademark was Li Jiajia (李佳佳), which is her personal name, it would belong to herself as a personality right.

[IP CHINA] Trademark Similarity: Tommy Hilfiger vs Tommycrown hfgip.com/news/ip-china-… Recently, the Beijing High People’s Court ruled an invalidation case which confirmed the invalidation against the trademark “Tommycrown” based on its similarity with Tommy Hilfiger.

All you need to know to advertise with NFTs in China hfgip.com/news/all-you-n… The market and regulatory environment for NFTs in China have evolved quite differently than in many other countries.

CNIPA issues the Revised Draft of the Trademark Law. Many amendments were introduced, expanding the Trademark Law to 10 chapters and 101 articles. hfgip.com/index.php/even…

The Guidelines are intended to advice foreign companies of the challenges, difficulties, most common mistakes and solutions to improve their performance and minimize the risks of doing business in China. Here the part 1: hfgip.com/news/guideline…

We tested ChatGPT3 by asking it some easy questions, then some slightly more complex ones, regarding basic intellectual property topics in China. hfgip.com/news/chatgpt3-…

We're glad to announce that our partner Daisy Yao has been listed by #WTR1000 between the 2023 best Trademark professionals worldwide! What a Tiger! #WTR HFG #trademark #recognition

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Recently CNIPA published the statistical data for trademarks in 2022. The total number of new trademark applications in 2022 was 7,304,007 and the total number of valid trademarks reached 40,642,099. hfgip.com/news/cnipa-tra…