The Shanghai Municipal Bureau of Market Supervision (上海市市场监督管理局) launched the 2022 “Iron Fist” campaign to investigate and deal with cases in the field of everyday life, to crack down on illegal acts that endanger safety and property, to create a safe and secure consumer environment, and to build the “Iron Fist” brand of the Bureau.
Guest Post: 1st CNIPA important patent infringement administrative decision
This is a guest post by Toby Mak, Senior Counsel and Patent Attorney at Tee & Howe. It was reported in October 2021 that the China National Intellectual Property Administration (CNIPA) accepted the first two patent infringement administrative complaints according to the Chinese Patent Law (2020), which empowers the CNIPA to accept such cases if they have nationwide influence. Now the first decision was issued by the CNIPA on 27 July 2022, and is available here (Chinese only). The subject …
NY Attorney Suspended for Filing Over 18,000 U.S. Trademark Applications for Chinese Agents Without Proper Review
In a Final Order (Proceeding No. D2022-16) released July 12, 2022, a New York attorney was suspended from practice for filing approximately 18,300 U.S. trademark applications for Chinese agents without proper review. Specifically, “due to the volume of applications he filed, Respondent did not always conduct a sufficiently thorough review of trademark applications prior to filing, including, for example, not performing an inquiry reasonable under the circumstances to determine whether the specimens showed the marks as used in commerce or …
Even the Chinese Government isn’t Safe from Counterfeiters: China Cracks Down on Counterfeit Mail Trucks
According to an announcement (胜诉！中国邮政邮车打假维权成功!) by the China Post on July 25, 2022 the Dongcheng District People’s Court in Beijing recently ruled that a defendant’s behavior constituted trademark infringement and supported all the claims of China Post with respect to infringing mail trucks. The trucks used visually similar marks to those registered by China Post presumably to enjoy preferential traffic and parking policies available to mail trucks in Beijing.