On January 13, 2023, the Chinese National Intellectual Property Administration, consisting of the Trademark Office, issued a notice soliciting opinions on the draft amendment of the Trademark Law of the People’s Republic of China. Although the draft amendment does not represent the final version for …
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Trademark Use Evidence from the China Trademark Office’s perspective
On August 13, 2018, the China Trademark Office (CTMO) released an interpretative document that described its requirements on submission of use evidence, called Relevant Explanation on Submitting Trademark Use Evidence (the Explanation). The Explanation shed some light what forms or formats of use …
How to get back your squatted .cn domain name in China
Domains names are pieces of important brand asset. There are thousands of General Top Level Domains ("gTLD") extensions such as .com, .net and Country Code Top Level Domains ("ccTLD").us or .cn. One company will find it not economically sound to register every possible gTLD or …
