CNIPA Published Its Work Plan Against Bad Faith Trademark Registrations From 2023-2025

On 20 April 2023, the CNIPA published its work plan against bad faith trademark registrations from 2023-2025 at the link below:

https://www.cnipa.gov.cn/art/2023/5/8/art_75_184971.html

If you wish to have a machine translation of this work plan, please let me know.

This work plan may give us an idea how the future revisions to the CN Trademark Law and relevant Implementation Rules would look like.

Several observations of my own:

· Bad faith trademark registration will be cracked down hard, to a level that could affect the creditability records of the entities involved (individuals, companies and/or agents). This may be the reason why trademark registrations in China reduced by over 50% comparing with last year 2022 (see my previous post https://www.linkedin.com/posts/tobymak_interesting-trends-from-cnipas-2023-march-activity-7056659896238276608-iBwD?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_desktop).