China’s National Intellectual Property Administration will no longer accept trademark applications from trademark agencies that fail to register with CNIPA. The number of trademark grants will further drop due to current amount of registered trademark agencies
China’s National Intellectual Property Administration, CNIPA, issued the Draft Amendment to the Trademark Law. Many of the amendments focus on reducing malicious registrations of trademarks and also introduces a system to force transfer maliciously squatted trademarks.
Trademark Office of the China National Intellectual Property Administration CNIPA announced Cracking Down on Malicious Registration of Trademarks such as World Cup and Raib. Small number of enterprises and individuals maliciously registered trademarks of hot words and logos.
The detailed actions will be taken in stages:
Mobilization and deployment stage (March 2021): All regional intellectual property administrative departments shall collect the case clues within their respective jurisdictions, which shall be summarized by provincial (autonomous region, municipal) intellectual property offices; all local trademark examination and cooperation centers shall collect clues in their own trademarks pending examination, and the above clues shall be reported to the Trademark Office before March 30.
Implementation stage (April-October 2021): The Trademark Office shall guide the local trademark examination and cooperation centers to examine the clues of cases in the trademark registration process according to law. As for the clues of cases in the procedure of trademark objection and invalidation, the Trademark Office shall examine and hear the case according to law and screen a number of typical trademarks for invalidation. The Department of Protection shall tra