The criminal lawsuit represented by Chang Tsi & Partners against Chen in Shanghai was award “2019 Top 10 Intellectual Property Protection Case” by Shanghai intellectual property administration, in which Chen’s sales of sanitary products with a “TOTO” counterfeit trademark constituted the crime of selling products bearing counterfeited registered trademark
Chang Tsi & Partners on behalf of BOE Technology Group Co, Ltd and Beijing Orient Vacuum Electric Co, Ltd. won the case of BOE Technology Group Co,Ltd. & Beijing Orient Vacuum Electric Co, Ltd. Suing Wenzhou BOE Vacuum Electric Co, Ltd. unfair competition.
In daily trademark practice, we frequently receive inquires from our clients about how to protect works of fine art under copyright and/or trademark law.
This is a case in which a shell company established in Hong Kong seeks unreasonable compensation by squatting trademarks and bringing a lawsuit against a multinational corporation for trademark infringement.
As stipulated in Article 20 of the Chinese Patent Law, where any entity or individual intends to file an application for patent abroad for any invention or utility model developed in China, it or he shall request in advance the patent administration department under the State Council for confidentiality examination; v'v
Intellectual property rights (IPRs) can not only contribute to a company’s performance and profiting in the market, but help the company obtain opportunities for tax breaks in accordance with the applicable taxation laws and policies.
For many years, China remains as the main provenance of IPR infringing goods, and such undesirable situation may not be significantly changed in the near future.
In 2018, the abovementioned case was selected by The Supreme People’s Procuratorate of PRC as one of ten classic cases regarding protection of intellectual property rights in 2017.
This case is the first one that the trademarks of Tiffany and Company (hereinafter referred to as “Tiffany”) are recognized as well-known trademark via
Our client LS&Co. is the owner of “LEVI’S” in China. Its brand “LEVI’S” is known as “Li-Wei-Si” (In Chinese: 李维斯) by Chinese consumers. A trademark squatter, an individual named Liu Zuofu, registered a trademark fully incorporating “Li-Wei-Si” as early as 2010: “Ku-Ai-Li-Wei-Si.” At this time the client owned no prior registration of the Chinese mark “Li-Wei-Si.” Liu Zuofu also owns a company named Guangzhou City Yixuan Apparel Co., Ltd. to manufacture and distribute “Ku-Ai-Li-Wei-Si” branded infringing jeans.
