If you’re crowd-funding a popular product on Kickstarter, there’s a good chance that Chinese pirates have already stolen your idea. …
The Pitfalls of Unregistered Marks
Companies that decide to produce or sell products in mainland China without first having registered their trademarks do so at …
Attacking Pirated Marks Based on Copyright
Copyright offers a potentially powerful tool for addressing piracy in China of logo marks and stylized word marks in the …
How to Register Trademarks in China
Companies large and small are filing more and more trademark applications in China to support product launches. But even companies …
Online Counterfeiting Best Practices
China’s State Council will soon issue a draft of the country’s first E‐Commerce Law for public comment. Provisions of this …
Draft Anti-Unfair Competition Law
On February 25 2016, the Legislative Affairs Office of the State Council released a draft version of an amended Anti-Unfair …
A Guide To China’s New Online Publishing Rules For Foreign Media
This analysis is intended to address a number of concerns that have been raised regarding China’s new Administrative Regulations for Online …
PRC Criminal Law Tackles Data Privacy
This month we take a detour from trademark issues to cover recent developments in data privacy, a subject that has …
Assessing China’s Plan to Build Internet Power
When the Chinese Communist Party targeted clean energy in its 11th Five Year Plan (2006-2010), the resulting investment spree upended the global …
Special Campaign on Protection of Disney Trademarks
On October 15, the national authority in China responsible for administrative enforcement of trademarks, the State Administration for Industry and …
OEM Exception to Trademark Infringement
China is one of a handful of countries that permits the production and export of goods that would otherwise be …
Merchandise Licensing: Contractual Arrangements
This is the second part of a two-part article introducing best practices in this sector. The first part focused on …
Merchandise Licensing: Securing Rights
The licensing of names and images from fictional works, including the names of cartoon characters and film titles, is growing …
Alibaba Reforms Taobao Enforcement Policies
On January 6 Alibaba announced a revamp of its TaoProtect online policing system which applies to its online sales portals www.taobao.com and www.tmall.com. Both are Chinese-language trade platforms, the prior ostensibly C2C
Should You Record Trademark License Contracts?
There are a range of legal and practical reasons for foreign trademark owners to record licenses of their registered Chinese …
Revised Provisions on Well-Known Mark Recognition Issued
Following the recent amendments to the PRC Trademark Law that took effect on May 1 2014, China issued revised Well-Known …
New Measures to Address Online Counterfeiting
There are clear indications that Chinese government authorities are taking more concerted actions to address online infringements of IP rights, …
PRC Trademark Law Revisions in Force
Revisions to the PRC Trade Mark Law entered into effect on May 1 2014. They offer some potentially valuable weapons …
Support in Devising Chinese Brands
Process SIPS will first compile information on client’s priorities and “brand values” for the Chinese market, preferences of the client …
A Guide to Creating Chinese-Language Trademarks
The use and registration of Chinese-language trademarks is an essential part of any marketing activity in Greater China. Local language …
Bad Faith Trademark Filings in China
This article provides information on strategies and best practices in dealing with bad faith trademark filings in China. The scenario …
