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2019-06

Notice of the State Intellectual Property Office on Issuing the Annual Work Guidelines for Promoting High-Quality Development of Intellectual Property Rights (2019)

(3) Construct a regionally differentiated indicator system. Each region should establish differentiated intellectual property indicators based on its own development positioning, tasks, requirements, and priorities, and timely improve relevant intellectual property indicators in the region's long-term and annual plans for economic and social development. Actively cooperate in data collection, statistical compilation, and analysis and forecasting related to the high-quality development of intellectual property rights. (Responsible: Intellectual Property Offices of various regions) III. Improve the policy system to promote the high-quality development of intellectual property rights (4) Strengthen strategic planning and top-level design for intellectual property rights. Formulate an intellectual property power strategy for 2035

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2019-06

Supreme People's Court Releases Overview of Intellectual Property Judicial Protection by Chinese Courts in 2018

Overview of Intellectual Property Judicial Protection by Chinese Courts in 2018. In 2018, under the strong leadership of the Party Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping at its core, the people's courts adhered to Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era, fully implemented the spirit of the 19th National Congress of the Communist Party of China and the second and third plenary sessions of the 19th Central Committee, and the Central Conference on Political and Legal Work, and deeply studied and implemented General Secretary Xi Jinping's series of important speeches. They firmly established the "four consciousnesses," strengthened the "four confidences," resolutely upheld the "two safeguards," remained true to their original aspirations, fulfilled their mission, deepened reforms in the field of intellectual property trial, and ...

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2019-06

Interpretation of Issues Related to the Amendment of the Trademark Law

On April 23, 2019, the Standing Committee of the 13th National People's Congress decided to amend the Trademark Law of the People's Republic of China. In order to strengthen the publicity and education of the rule of law, popularize legal knowledge, and create a social atmosphere of knowing and abiding by the law, we introduce and interpret the main clauses and their application of this amendment to the Trademark Law in the form of Q&A, responding to issues of widespread concern in practice. Question 1: What is the background of this amendment to the Trademark Law? In order to implement the decisions and deployments of the Party Central Committee and the State Council, adapt to the economic and social development situation, strengthen intellectual property protection, further optimize the business environment, and solve prominent problems in practice,

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2019-06

China's annual applications for design patents reached 709,000, and negotiations are underway to join the Hague Agreement.

Shen Changyu, head of the State Intellectual Property Office, stated at the opening ceremony of the 15th China (Wuxi) International Design Expo that in 2018, China received 709,000 applications for design patents. He indicated that future development in this area will focus on three aspects: promoting creation and application, strengthening protection, and promoting international cooperation. He also revealed that China is currently in negotiations with the World Intellectual Property Organization regarding accession to the Hague Agreement Concerning the International Registration of Industrial Designs. This will help Chinese companies more easily obtain design patent protection in other countries, allowing Chinese creativity, design, and manufacturing to better go global.

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2019-05

Second Instance Judgment in the GoingDown Trademark Case

The examiner's imaginative explanation of the trademark "GOINGDOWN" has recently seen new developments. Let's take a look at the entire case process. Season 1: December 2017, the "GoingDown" trademark was rejected on the grounds that "goingdown" is similar to "够淫荡" (gòu yíndàng), and is likely to have a negative impact. Why does "goingdown" point to "够淫荡"? Season 2: August 2018, the decision to uphold the rejection was maintained; Season 3: November 2018, the first-instance judgment revoked the review decision; GoingDown Trademark Case First-Instance Judgment

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2019-05

Case Example: Trademark Invalidity Declaration Case No. 14383893, “Yangzhuoyongcuo”

I. Basic Case Facts. The trademark “Yangzhuoyongcuo” No. 14383893 (hereinafter referred to as the disputed trademark) was filed for registration by Tibet Tunmi Culture Tourism Co., Ltd. (the applicant in this case) on April 15, 2014, and was approved for use on August 7, 2015, on goods in Class 29 “fish products, pickled fruits”. On April 5, 2017, Langkazi County Yangzhuo Investment Co., Ltd. (the applicant in this case) filed a request for invalidation of the disputed trademark. The applicant stated that “Yangzhuoyongcuo” is located in Langkazi County and enjoys extremely high popularity and influence in Tibet and even throughout the country.