On November 6, the 2024 Shanghai Intellectual Property Law Forum, hosted by Chang Tsi & Partners and organized by its Shanghai office, was successfully held in Shanghai.
We are pleased to announce that Chang Tsi & Partners recently added five new partners and senior consultants to the firm.
Recently, the Jianfa v. Michael Kors case, named “Deal of the year” and “The Top Ten Intellectual Property Case with Research Value”, was finally concluded. Managing Partner Simon Tsi, and Partner Michael Fu from Chang Tsi & Partners represented Michael Kors (hereafter referred as “Defendant”) to win the second instance trademark infringement case, wherein all the claims by Shantou Chenghai Jianfa Handbag Craft Factory (hereafter referred as “Plaintiff”) were rejected.
In order to further reduce the burden of IP right owner and stimulate economic development, recently, Ministry of Finance of China and National Development and Reform Commission published the Announcement of Patent and Trademark Application Fee Reduction for 2019.
National Development and Reform Commission and the Ministry of Commerce issued the 2019 edition of Negative List for Market Entry of Foreign Investment ("Negative List") and Catalogue of Guidance on Encouraged Foreign-investment Industry ("Catalogue") on June 30th, 2019.
There is a continuously rising number of IP litigation cases in China in the past five years. For example, the number of civil, administrative and criminal IP cases newly filed before the courts in 2018 reached 334,951, according to the Annual Report on the Judicial Protection of Intellectual Property Rights of Chinese Courts (2018), which is an increase of 97,709 (41.19%) over 2017.
The Supreme People’s Court sets up a specialised IP tribunal on 1 January 2019 which will take the patent and other intellectual property (IP) civil litigations and administrative appeals involving sophisticated professional skills coming from the three IP courts and 19 IP tribunals with cross-region jurisdiction around the country.
This is a complicated trademark infringement case, involving a multinational corporation and a domestic industry leader, who later united together with other local corporations.
In March 2014, Unwired Planet brought an action against Huawei, Samsung and Google for the infringement of its UK patents, including 5 standard essential patents (“SEP”) covered by 2G, 3G and 4G telecommunication standards.
On February 26, 2019, Chang Tsi & Partners, along with administrative leaders with the China National Intellectual Property Administration (hereinafter referred to as "Administration"), industrial experts and representatives from other Chinese IP firms was invited to attend the symposium on opinion solicitation of "Regulations on managing trademark application and registration behaviors" (hereinafter referred to as "Regulations").
Asia Legal Business (ALB) announced the final ranking of 2019 ALB China Firms to Watch. With its outstanding performance in the IP field and impressive growth in business, Chang Tsi & Partners was included into the ranking and highly recommended by the ALB in 2019.
Early 2019，Chang Tsi Management Conference 2018 was held at Ayana Resort and Spa, Bali of Indonesia. This Conference gathered the managerial personnel of Chang Tsi from Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou and Shenzhen together for the previous experience and the future development.
The ruling of the subject case is a break from the norm.
