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China’s Latest Laws and Regulations in December (I), 2012

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I. The State Administration of Industry and Commerce and the Ministry of Justice issued the Administrative Measures for Law Firms Undertaking Trademark Agency Work, and DeBund Has Already Submitted a Renewal Record

On December 27, 2012, the State Administration of Industry and Commerce (“SAIC”) together with the Ministry of Justice issued the Administrative Measures for Law Firms Undertaking Trademark Agency Work (“Administrative Measures”), which were published on the SAIC’s website. The Administrative Measures clearly provide eight categories of work that law firms can provide related to trademarks, including: application for trademark registration or change, trademark renewal and transfer, pledge registration, license contract recording, opposition, cancellation, revocation, and Madrid System international trademark registration. According to the Administrative Measures, firms engaging in such business must apply for recordation with the Trademark Office of the SAIC. Additionally, the Administrative Measures list the matters handled by the State Trademark Review and Adjudication Board of the SAIC, such as reexamination of rejection, opposition, and cancellation and disputes concerning registered marks. The Administrative Measures come into effect on January 1, 2013.

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Another iPad Like Battle for WeChat (微信) Trademark Dispute?

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 (By Albert Chen) In yesterday’s post, we analyzed why Tencent would confront with the trademark squatting, and mainly blamed it for the defect on the internal management. Today, we would continue our discussion, and share our opinions on how could Tencent take back or stop the first application by others.

Before the end of this year, no one would oppose “iPad battle” shall be the trademark dispute of the year, and yet with the breaking out of conflict on the trademark of “微信”, a LBS software from Tencent Inc. (the “Tencent”) and its English name is WeChat, that affirmation would be challenged.

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How to Legally Use Mickey Mouse Brand and FIgure in China?

By You Yunting

About one month before, the IPR Committee of Shanghai Bar Association invited the police officer from the Economic Investigating Squadron of Shanghai Police Department to deliver a speech on the criminal protection over IPR issues. And in the communication after the seminar, the police officer raised a question to the acceded lawyers, “The Shanghai Disney Land will be constructed several years later, and it’s foreseeable that there could be stores selling Mickey Mouse or other figures articles with no license thereby granted around the park. Yet, by then, the copyright protection term on Mickey could be expired, and so what measures could be taken to strike the unlicensed using or selling?”

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