China has been No. 1 in the world for thirteen consecutive years in terms of number of trademark applications and registrations.

According to Article 22 of the new Implementing Regulations of China Trademark Law which came into effect on May 1, 2014, if China Trademark Office rejects a trademark application in respect of partial designated goods, the applicant can request to have the application with the provisionally approved items divided to be another application with reserved original filing date.

The State Administration for Industry and Commerce released a series of measures to further strengthen the regulation of online transactions.

Since early 2015, in examining patent applications for invention, examines in the State Intellectual Property Office of China (SIPO) have been more and more focusing on the patentability issues, especially inventiveness issues.

The State Intellectual Property Office of China announced amendments to the Guidelines for Examination, which give design protection to graphical user interfaces.

Some online infringers sell counterfeits mixed with genuine ones as a cover, which is not only an annoying problem but even becomes a real trouble to the brand owners.

SIPO issued on March 1, a decision to amend its Patent Examination Guidelines, which will take effect on April 1, 2017. The amendments involve provisions about business method...

In April 2016, the Supreme People's Court released the "Annual Report of the Intellectual Property Cases Heard by the Supreme People's Court in 2015".

The Trademark Review and Adjudication Board and the Beijing Intellectual Property Court invalidated a copycat of an unregistered French GI in China by invoking the Article 10.2 and Article 10.1.8 of the 2001 Trademark Law.

SEB SA owns an invention patent titled "Dry Fryer" (ZL200910159735.8, application date June 8, 2005, priority date June 8, 2004 and granted on April 13, 2011) ("Patent").

On April 24, 2014, the Standing Committee of the National People’2 Congress ratified the Beijing Treaty on Audiovisual Performances, which was signed in Beijing on June 24, 2012 at the World Intellectual Property Organization’s Diplomatic Conference on the Protection of Audiovisual Performances

By this civil lawsuit, STIHL solved the trade dress infringement problem and imposed greater pressure upon the counterfeiter.

A graphical user interface (GUI) refers to an interface presented as a graph or image in a display which links to an operating system.

General Mills Asia, owner of the trademark "WANCHAI FERRY in Chinese characters" obtained a victory against a trademark squatter before the Beijing Higher Court.

Jiancheng Jiang of Peksung asks whether a Higher Court judgment in favour of a medical use claim brings new hope for inventors.

The Supreme Court of the PRC holds that continued use, offer for sale and sale of products produced, sold or imported before a patent is granted shall be allowed.

In China's patent system, there are two available routes for enforcing a patent. This is the so-called two-track system in which a patent owner, when encountering infringement of its patent, ..

On February 11, 2015 China's State Intellectual Property office (SIPO) held a press conference to disclose statistics for patent filing and granting in 2014.

Patent owners in China can enforce their rights through two routes: judicial (ie, Chinese courts) and administrative (ie, local intellectual property offices). The current measures for the administrative enforcement of patents came into effect on February 1, 2011.

In China, it is difficult for a 3D trademark to get protection, especially judicial protection.