In the latest Chambers and Partners 2018 Asia-Pacific Guide, LexField Law Offices topped the rankings for PRC Firm specializing in Intellectual Property: Litigation for the fourth time..

The Shanghai Intellectual Property Court ("Shanghai IP Court") recently issued a judgment finding that an OEM manufacturer infringed upon domestic trademark registrations when manufacturing identical products for a foreign trademark owner for pure exporting purposes.

On January 2018, the World Trademark Review (WTR) announced its WTR1000- The World's Leading Trademark Professionals 2018. LexField was awarded silver in two categories: "enforcement and litigation" and "prosecution and strategy".

In February 2017, the China Trademark Review & Adjudication Board (TRAB) supported the trademark invalidation action raised by a US company and decided the registration of the trademark "DROPCAM & Chinese characters" to be invalid.

Our partner David Huang was recently invited to give a lecture in an advanced training course jointly held by SIPO and LES for more than 200 licensing executives and practitioners from across China.

Beijing Higher People's Court in a recent judgment holds that a Markush claim may include multiples technical solutions and thus may claim partial priority, i.e. some of the technical solutions...

The case concerns a design patent on a zipper.

May 4, 2017, the State Administration for Industry and Commerce of China issued Measures for Oral Hearing for Trademark Review Cases by Trademark Review and Adjudication Board that takes effect immediately.

In a non-use cancellation action decided in March 2017, the China Trademark Review & Adjudication Board (TRAB) accepted the evidence provided by LexField on behalf of a US company and rejected the action filed by an Australian company.

The case has been extensively reported and intensively followed within and outside China, with a central question being whether the court would grant an injunction.

July this year, Shanghai Fengxian District People 's Court (the Court) ruled in the very first case of an e-commerce platform suing its online seller in China, i.e. Taobao vs. YAO.

The Beijing Intellectual Property Court recently made a decision fining the defendant in a patent infringement suit RMB 1 million (~US$ 144K) for failure to comply with the court's order to turn in its financial records and samples of the accused product.

The DRAFT lists five major aspects that SAIC would like to improve regarding enterprise name registration and administration.

The Beijing Intellectual Property Court recently issued its judgment in the first-in-China infringement suit involving a design patent on GUI, Qihu v. Jiangmin.

The Beijing Intellectual Property Court issued its judgment on December 8, 2016 on a patent infringement case between Watchdata (北京握奇数据系统有限公司) and Hengbao (恒宝股份有限公司), two Chinese domestic companies.

In a recent trademark administrative lawsuit, both Beijing Intellectual Property Court and Beijing Higher People's Court found in favor of Kweichow Moutai Group vs. a registered trademark ...

The State Administration for Industry and Commerce (SAIC) revised its Trademark Examination and Adjudication Criteria ("the Criteria") on January 4, 2017 to adapt to the third round of revisions to the PRC Trademark Law.

Both the TRAB and CTMO held that the Chinese characters "授粉精华液" , with their conceptual meaning of "pollination essence", is a generic term commenly used in the agricultural sector as a substitution for insect-driven crop pollination.

The revised Criteria are expected to strengthen the protection of prior-right holders and curb malicious trademark squatting.

Baidu claimed that the 5 companies conducted fraudulent activities off-line although they all provided true and qualified documents when contracting Baidu for promoting their business on Baidu.com.