22 December 2023FeaturesPatentsLing Zhao

The registration and protection of 3D marks in China

Three-dimensional trademarks belong to a category of non-traditional trademarks, and the term non-traditional trademark was first proposed in the Singapore Treaty on the Law of Trademarks (STLT) to refer to trademark types other than traditional textual and graphic trademarks.

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