Parallel importation is no simple foreign trade phenomenon, with multiple motivations, commingling benefits and harms to consumer interests, which should not be handled ...
Over the years, in Chinese market of pastries and mooncakes, the Daoxiangcun (“稻香村”) brand and the related trademark litigations have been a dazzling and perplexing phenomenon...
Sina Corporation (Sina), up and running for 15 years, has been a pioneer among Chinese Internet companies, almost going through all the changes of China’s Internet industry. The interviewee...
The sophistication of modern marketing environment poses enormous challenges to brand owners, not only by counterfeiters, looks-like infringers, but ironically also by their business partners...
This two-part article is intended to provide a brief overview of the trademark opposition procedure in the United States. Part I covers considerations for preparing and filing...
Scotch Whisky has been made in Scotland for over 500 years and it has grown from a cottage industry, where farmers distilled their left over barley to prevent it going to waste, to one of...
This is the success story of a government that, by facilitating the adoption of equitable trade standards for protecting intellectual property online managed to durably decrease counterfeiting...
There is strong cooperation between the UK and China on trade marks. The UK Intellectual Property Office (IPO) and the State Administration of Industry and Commerce (SAIC) signed...