Beijing Wei Chixue Law Firm--Industry Updates

A design patent infringement case we represented was selected into the 2019 Annual Report of the Supreme People's Courton IP Cases

The Supreme Peoples Court (hereinafter referred to as SPC)issued the Annual Report of the Supreme Peoples Court on IP Cases on April 23, 2020. This annual report selects 60 typical cases from the IP cases concluded by the SPC in 2019, from which the...

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[Interpreting Law by Cases] Both the winning and losing parties were satisfied with the judgment--The Defendant Took the Initiative to Pay the Compensation and Plaintiff Gave the judger a Banner of T

On January 6, 2020, the attorney of the Japanese plaintiff, BRIDGESTONE CORPORATION (hereinafter referred to as Bridgestone) came to the Shanghai Intellectual Property Court (hereinafter referred to as the Shanghai IP Court) and gave presiding judge,...

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Summary and analysis of administrative litigations of trademark adjudication cases in 2018 (Excerpt)

I. Basic situation of responses to litigations (as defendant) in 2018 In 2018, the trademark adjudication department decided a total of 265,200 cases, and received 11,510 notices for response to the first-instance litigations in the whole year. The n...

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Announcement No. 326 of CNIPA on Restoring the Stamp Tax withholding and Collection

Regarding the collection of stamp tax when making the registration for Chinese patent, CNIPA issued an announcement on August 12, 2019 that CNIPA would stop the patent stamp tax withholding and collection since August 25, 2019, due to the adjustments...

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Shanghai Court: Judicial Performance Evaluation Data Disclosure Normalized, and “Completely Paperless” Online Filing Realized

SHANGHAI, Mar. 14 (Xinhua) -- Shanghai High Peoples Court will set up a normalized judicial data disclosure platform on its website to regularly and dynamically publish relevant data of case acceptance, conclusion and enforcement of the three-level c...

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Judgment pronounced in court: the first sound of gavel strike in the IP tribunal of the SPC

The Supreme Peoples Court (hereinafter referred to as SPC) held a public trial of an invention patent infringement case involving the appellants Xiamen Carall automotive parts Co. Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as Carall Company) and Xiamen Fuke autom...

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Joint Punishments against Seriously Dishonest Parties in IP Field will be Carried Out by 38 Administrations and Units

Recently National Development and Reform Commission, together with National Intellectual Property Administration (CNIPA), the Supreme Peoples Court, State Administration for Marketing Regulation and etc., 38 administrations and units in total, have j...

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Announcement on simplifying the filing documents for review against refusal of trademark applications

For the convenience of the parties of review, Trademark Review and Adjudication Board (hereafter referred as the Board) decided to further simplify filing documents for review against refusal of trademark applications. The detailed announcement is as...

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Supreme People's Court of the People’s Republic of China

Interpretation of Several Issues Concerning the Application of the Limitation of Action System of General Provisions of Civil Law of the Peoples Republic of China Announcement of Supreme Peoples Court Interpretation of Several Issues Concerning the A...

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