Overview Of China's "Standards For Determining General Trademark Violations"

China's recently released Standards for Determining General Trademark Violations (the "Standards")  consists of 35 articles, which provide for ten categories of violations of the order of trademark administration in detail, including:

• infringement by (not) using a registered trademark
• use of marks that are not allowed to be used as trademarks
• use of the words "well-known mark" in commercial activities
• failure of a trademark licensee to mark its name and origin of goods
• changing the name, address or other information of the registered trademark or the registrant on its own
• failure to fulfil the obligations of managing collective trademarks and certification trademarks, failure to fulfil the obligations of managing trademark printing, and