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Well-known Trademark in China (2014): No Longer Unknown, But Still Unloved?

    By Danny Friedmann   The Third Amendment to the Trademark Law, which, together with the revised Trademark Regulations, came into effect May 1st, 2014, in combination with the Well-known Trademark Recognition and Protection Regulations stipulated by the State Administration … Continue reading

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Trademark Dilution/Delusion in HK: Greyhound Café is free-riding on Greyhound Lines’ Reputation

  Can the Gaia Group who brought a restaurant chain first in Thailand (in 1997, as a line extension of its fashion label which it started in 1980 with men’s casual wear at Siam Center, followed by an expansion into … Continue reading

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Precious Lessons Learned From Hermès’ Unregistered Trademark In China

Love for horses, Love for gemsAlthough Hermès registered its trademark in China since 1977, it had not yet registered its Chinese name 爱马仕 (Ài mǎ shì) as a trademark the Legal Evening News wrote, according to Shanghai Daily, see here. In 1995 Dafeng … Continue reading

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When You Give This Horse Wings It’s Still Brand Dilution

It’s a car …, it’s a plane …Picture: Danny Friedmann … it’s a piano. Times Square, Causeway Bay, Hong KongPicture: Danny Friedmann The Pegasus Guoqin costs more than 2.86 million Renminbi (over US $410,000). Although it is painted in the “Ferrari rosso” … Continue reading

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Saturated Saturday: Tsingtao Beer China’s Well Known Trademark

Since September 20, 1991, Tsingtao Beer 青島啤酒 has been recognised as a well-known trademark in China. It was approved this status by the State Administration for Industry and Commerce (SAIC) during the first batch of China’s Well-known Trademarks. Wang Jun, of Deheng … Continue reading

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What Can A Famous Food Brand Do Against Footwear Using Its Mark?

As a vegetarian I do not frequent the many McDonald’s fastfood joints that can be found in China and which turn the slim people obese, just as they did with the American and European populations. I am not really certain … Continue reading

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Uncreative Brand, Creative Brand in China

Uncreative Brand In Yangshuo, next to Guilin, Guangxi province, you can see one of the most characteristic mountains of China. But if you bike through the village, you will notice some interesting shops as well. Almost next to each other … Continue reading

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Well Known and Less Known Aspects Of Well-Known Marks

In the USTR 2008 Report to Congress on China’s WTO compliance on page 4, one can read the following remarkable sentence: “…the promotion of famous Chinese brands of merchandise using what appear to be prohibited forms of financial support, …” … Continue reading

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Comments on Judicial Interpretations of Determination of Well-Known Trademark

Mr Jing ‘Brad’ Luo, JD candidate, May 2009 at the SMU Dedman School of Law and Professor Shubha Ghosh at the University of Wisconsin Madison, School of Law, wrote a paper about the subject called: ‘Protection and Enforcement of Well-Known … Continue reading

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PRC’s Anti-Monopoly Law: Well-known Trademarks and Traditional Chinese Brands Are Part of National Security

Mr Steve Dickinson of the China Law Blog wrote an insightful article about Anti -Monopoly Law of the People’s Republic of China that became effective August 1, 2008. Article 31 Anti-Monopoly Law: Where national security is involved in the case … Continue reading

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Excellent Intro to Well-known Trademarks in China

In the case BlackBerry versus Redberry IP Dragon elaborated on well-known trademarks. Read here. Last year, Christopher Woods and Lena Kempe of Kilpatrick Stockton wrote an excellent introduction to well-known trademarks in China called ‘Fragile protection’. In 3 pages, history, … Continue reading

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