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Fighting against COVID-19 related trademark applications: How China reversed the trend?

In the past few months, trademark offices around the world have seen an inevitable flood of trademark applications refer to the pandemic. This trend is not surprising as there are always some applicants following the trending news and trying to register related terms as trademarks for potential busi

Exploration of protection condition for work's name prior rights and interests in trademark disputes

Recently, the Beijing Intellectual Property Court held a press conference on the trial of cases related to the protection of the prior rights and interests of the names of works, and conducted a series of administrative cases and typical cases concerning the authorization and confirmation of tradema

Embracing Change and Redefining the Future ——International Trademark Association 2020 Annual Meeting and Leadership Meeting Held Online in November

The International Trademark Association ("INTA") 2020 Annual Meeting & Leadership Meeting ("2020 Annual Meeting") was held online from November 9 to November 20. As an annual, international, premier event in the intellectual property (IP) industry, INTA’s 2020 Annual Meeting

“Good Doctor” finally won “Ping An Good Doctor” in trademark battle ——Privately-owned enterprise well-known trademark protection and intellectual property protection thoughts

Summary  The constant high-intensity input in the brand's intellectual property protection perspective makes Good Doctor Company have zero tolerance towards the entangling trademark infringement. It also makes the "Good Doctor" v. "Ping An Good Doctor" trademark inv

Judgment and Analysis of the Conflicts between Graphic Design Patents and Prior Trademark Rights

Due to the similarities between the graphic design patent right and prior trademark right of the graphic design products, the rights of the two are easily confused, and conflicts occur from time to time. There are major disagreements in practice and theory regarding how to resolve contradictions in