ECTA is looking forward to welcoming many colleagues at its 39th Annual Conference ‘Waltzing with IP’ on 21-22 October 2021, this year in a hybrid format. For safety reasons, this prestigious European IP event will be organised either in Vienna for a limited number of participants and online. We have ensured a very engaging programme with most distinguished guests and speakers such as WIPO Director General Daren Tang: find out what you may expect and register soon!
Langkong Art Museum presented ‘An Intellectual Property Day’ during the ‘Linear’ exhibition in celebration of the publication of the 100th issue of China Intellectual Property magazine (English Edition) in Beijing on July 17. The event’s co-organizers include China Intellectual Property magazine, Beijing Sunshine Intellectual Property and Legal Development Foundation, and Zhongguancun Intellectual Property New Association.
Tencent filed a lawsuit against Kingnet, Lenovo, and Shenqi with the Haidian District People’s Court of Beijing city alleging that the DNL logo was deceptively similar to the DNF logo and used on a si
Daikokuya Holdings Co., Ltd. is a Japan-based company mainly engaged in the manufacture and sale of electrical appliances, as well as pawn shops, secondhand stores, and other businesses.
Thai company Taokaenoi Food & Marketing Public Company Limited (“Taokaenoi”) registered the Tao Kae Noi (literally, Little Boss in English) trademark in relation to ‘crispy seaweed’ in Class 29 with t
The registrant who abuses its right and causes economic losses to the prior user after trademark squatting shall bear civil liability for loss compensation according to law.
The distribution and protection of overseas intellectual property is highly specialized and systematic. Some domestic companies do not lack the courage and determination to go global. Still, facing multiple obstacles such as high costs, complex processes, unfamiliar environments, and different systems, it is inevitable that they are feared of the prospects of overseas intellectual property distribution and protection.
Patent marking statutes in the U.S. and China take completely different stances. In the U.S., patent marking requires an affirmative act of the patentee to mark her products, and failure to comply with patent marking may drastically limit the past damages afforded to the patentee before a litigation on patent infringement had begun. In contrast, patent marking in China only gives the patentee the right, rather than the obligation to mark, whereas the patentee may be entitled to a fully recovery of past damages regardless of whether or not she has done patent marking.
The analysis of this paper shows that there are two main factors that affect the ownership of trademark rights of informal appellation: one is whether the holder of formal trademark has subjective intention and objective behavior to use informal appellation, and the other is whether the use of informal appellation by others will lead to confusion and misunderstanding or damage the legitimate rights and interests of the holder of formal trademark.
This article mainly introduces and discusses the specific types of cases that can be postponed in trademark administrative cases and the circumstances of the application of postponement. In the above-mentioned procedures and other procedures, there are also some other causes for postponement, such as requesting for the postponement of examination of review cases of refusal based on a consent.
The special feature of this case is that the trademark was still legally in existence when the accused trademark was used by Nanchangxin Company, but was later cancelled (invalid).
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