Practical guides on registering, using and protecting trademarks in China.
China screens a trademark twice: once against earlier rights, and once for whether the sign may be used at all. The second screen never shows up in a...
Read articleWhy "they copied my mark" is the wrong starting point Brand owners often assume that a competitor using a confusingly similar sign must be infringing...
Read articleFiling a brand that names a place: the problem in one paragraph Brand names borrowed from geography are everywhere: a city, a region, a mountain, a river...
Read articleArabic-language documents for China trademarks: preserve legal identity, handle right-to-left text and prepare complete Chinese translations.
Read articleFiling a China trademark with Russian documents? How to transliterate Cyrillic names, keep patronymics, and meet CNIPA's rules.
Read articleFiling a China trademark from France? How to translate SARL and SAS, keep accents, and meet CNIPA's translation requirements.
Read articleFiling a China trademark from Spain? How to translate S.L. and S.A., handle double surnames, and meet CNIPA's translation requirements.
Read articleFiling a China trademark with English documents? How to render Ltd. and LLC, transliterate brand names, and meet CNIPA's translation rules.
Read articleTwo marks that are shared by design, and the rules that keep them honest A collective mark and a certification mark are unusual on the Chinese register. The...
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