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27 April 2022TrademarksHaoyu Feng

Weeding out bad faith trademarks

In December 2021, the China National Intellectual Property Administration (CNIPA) issued penalties against two trademark agencies by suspending acceptance of one agency’s trademark cases for 12 months and permanently barring trademark cases from the other.

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Webinar: tackling bad faith TMs in China
29 July 2020   Bad faith trademark registrations have long been considered a scourge of the Chinese IP system. But significant progress has been in tackling the problem, according to trademark lawyers at Wanhuida IP.
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USPTO warns of ‘bad faith’ filings from China
22 July 2019   The US Patent and Trademark Office has identified China as the source of an increasing number of bad faith trademark filings in the US.


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