Mar
With the deepening of China's opening-up, both foreign companies entering the Chinese market and domestic companies expanding overseas often choose to register English trademarks as part of their brand strategy. Whether an English trademark can be registered depends significantly on its meaning, as it relates to various aspects of trademark registrability. For instance, an English trademark with a specific meaning may be rejected on absolute grounds, such as lack of distinctiveness, deceptiveness, or adverse effects. It may also be rejected on relative grounds if its meaning is identical or similar to an existing Chinese trademark. In recent years, China has tightened its examination standards for English trademarks, with many being rejected under Article 10(7) or 10(8) of the Trademark Law due to deceptiveness or adverse effects. In such cases, not only is the trademark denied registration, but its use is also prohibited, requiring companies to pay special attention. This article attempts to analyze the standards for determining the meaning of English trademarks in administrative trademark litigation.
Mar
A company in Wuhan, Hubei province, recently obtained patent authorization for its core technology more than a year ahead of schedule, achieving a breakthrough in mass production in the field.
Feb
China's animated blockbuster Ne Zha 2 was released in theaters across North America recently, bringing the "demon child" Ne Zha into the global spotlight with a stunning debut. At the same time, the film, directed by Jiaozi and produced over five years with the participation of more than 4,000 top Chinese animators, has broke Chinese box office records many times, making it the first film in China's film history to break the 10-billion-yuan mark.
Feb
Company A is an Internet high-tech company, whose main business is the application of big data intelligent mining technology and the development of mobile Internet clients. Its main products include the "AA" mobile APP, which uses its independently developed big data tracking system to perform intelligent tracking, personalized recommendations, intelligent summaries, etc., and provides "commercial intelligence collection" and "public opinion detection and tracking" services for enterprises. Company A clearly protects the technical selection of the above search engine algorithm: a total of five technologies are used and the specific implementation methods of these five technologies are clarified. Company A provided the "AA-Big Data Tracking Engine Algorithm Analysis Expert Opinion", which concluded that "AA-Big Data Tracking Engine integrates semantic aggregation technology based on semantic network, personality mining technology based on Web mining, semantic compression technology based on vector mapping, semantic search technology based on LDA, and semantic recommendation technology based on self-organizing map model into an efficient and intelligent big data tracking engine, realizing the complete display of intelligent tracking algorithms, and can simultaneously achieve the effect of timely tracking and acquisition of user-customized information, which has great commercial value. Moreover, the fixation of the algorithm has undergone a large number of selections and tests, and has great confidentiality value."
Jan
The State Council Information Office held a press conference at 10 a.m. on Wednesday, January 15, 2025, inviting Hu Wenhui, Deputy Director of the National Intellectual Property Administration, Guo Wen, Director of the Intellectual Property Protection Department of the National Intellectual Property Administration, Wang Peizhang, Director of the Intellectual Property Application Promotion Department of the National Intellectual Property Administration, and Liang Xinxin, Director of the Strategic Planning Department of the National Intellectual Property Administration, to introduce the progress of intellectual property work in 2024 and answer questions from reporters. At the meeting, Hu Wenhui, Deputy Director of the National Intellectual Property Administration, introduced that in 2024, the national intellectual property system successfully completed various annual goals and tasks, and the construction of an intellectual property power took new and solid steps.
Jan
The results of the fifth national economic census announced recently show that in 2023, the added value of patent-intensive industries nationwide will be 16.8713 trillion yuan, accounting for 13.04% of the gross domestic product (GDP), completing the goal of "By 2025, the added value of my country's patent-intensive industries will account for 13% of GDP" in the "14th Five-Year Plan for National Intellectual Property Protection and Utilization" (hereinafter referred to as the "14th Five-Year Plan") ahead of schedule.
