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Four cases involving intersecting civil and administrative procedures for patents of medical application inventions were held in the Intellectual Property Tribunal of the Supreme People's Court
2025-05-05On the morning of April 25, the Intellectual Property Tribunal of the Supreme Peoples Court carried out trial to consolidate four cases involving trot and administrative confirmation of rights for medical invention patents.Two medical invention patents of “Levo-Ornidazole” from Shenghe Company were -
Interpretation of the "deceptive" provision in the prohibition provisions of trademark registration
2025-05-05Article 10 of the Trademark Law stipulates several situations in which "shall not be used as trademarks". Among those, item (7) regulates that “Those in the nature of fraud in advertising that easily confuses the public with the quality or other characteristics or origins of the goods, or the place -
Special Action Plan to Combat Malicious Squatting of Trademarks
2025-04-30The special action focused on cracking down on the actions of malicious squatting of trademarks, seeking improper interests, disrupting the order of trademark registration management, which causes greater adverse social impact as follows,(1) Maliciously squatting of the names of national or regional -
Supreme People’s Court issued judicial interpretations on punitive damages for intellectual property rights to punish serious violations of intellectual property rights in accordance with the law
2025-04-30On March 3, 2021, the Supreme Peoples Court issued the Interpretation of the Supreme Peoples Court on the Application of Punitive Damages in the Trial of Civil Cases of Infringement of Intellectual Property Rights (hereinafter referred to as the Interpretation).The Interpretation made specific provi -
Interpretation and Application of the leading case "Investigation and Handling of Shanghai Zhangyuan Information Technology Co., Ltd.'s Infringement on the Exclusive Right of D&B's Registered Trademark...
2025-04-30On December 14, 2020, the CNIPA issued the leading case for Administrative Enforcement of Intellectual Property Rights "Investigation and Handling of Shanghai Zhangyuan Information Technology Co., Ltd.s Infringement on the Exclusive Right of D&Bs Registered Trademark by the Market Supervision Bureau