Founded in 2019, BDPE has served leading enterprises including Huawei, Deutsche Telekom, etc. The team also dealt with over 40 patent litigation cases for Chinese clients from just 2021 to 2022. Recently, China IP interviewed the firm to find out the secret of its success.
Following the launch of the plan, the 14th National People’s Congress of China passed the institutional reform of the State Council. The functions of CNIPA and the SAMR are now coordinated, and the enforcement teams of SAMR maintain the duty to enforce the law for trademarks and patents, under the professional guidance of the CNIPA. But what does this reform mean for dispute resolution, particularly arbitration, in resolving disputes around IP?
On 29 November 2022, the European Commission published its long-awaited proposals for a new Directive on the legal protection of designs (hereafter “DDir”) and a new Regulation on Community designs (hereafter “DReg”). The Directive is the instrument used to provide harmonization amongst EU Member States with regard to their national design laws.
The recent judgement of the General Court of the European Union in Case T‑323/21 Castel Frères v. Shanghai Panati Co. deals with the genuine use of a trade mark and distinctiveness of Chinese character trade marks in the EU. The Court decided that the registration of the contested Chinese character trade mark shall be revoked because its level of distinctiveness is below the average and it had been only used as a decorative element and not as an indication of origin of the goods.
Now, when we talk about Metaverse and NFTs, and you refer to the Hermes case, this is a question of how the development of how new technologies can affect existing rights. And what is the balance between art, creation, and existing IP rights?
Armenia, officially the Republic of Armenia, is a landlocked, mountainous country in the South Caucasus region of Eurasia. Armenian is the only official language even though Russian is widely used.
Artificial Intelligence (AI) is providing enormous productivity and increased value in many applications. But AI is no panacea and is not yet sufficiently well developed to be precise or dependable everywhere.
Recently, Mr.Davide Luigi Petraz and Mr.Daniele Giovanni Petraz, two managing partners of GLP, were invited to share with us their views on the latest developments of intellectual property in Italy and Europe, as well as the secrets of GLP's success over the past 55 years.
Article 25 of the Patent Law provides for six types of subject matters for which no patent right should be granted. No matter how practical, novel or inventive they are, specific results covered by such subject matters are excluded from patent protection. Nevertheless, the determination of ineligible subject matters does not require evidence to aid comparison as in the case of commenting on novelty or inventiveness, which can be concluded directly and merely by deductive reasoning.
This case is an exploration of "other" unfair competition acts under Article 12 of the Anti-Unfair Competition Law and provides guidelines for the adjudication of similar cases involving cybercrimes.
This case showcased the in-depth implementation of the central government's judicial policy requirements on the protection of property rights and the rights and interests of entrepreneurs.
If an application for business name registration was for the implementation of unfair competition, it would not be applicable to the principle of administrative trust protection.
The judgment of this case regulates the unfair competition act of using fabricated identity and employment history to obtain unfair competitive advantages.
Generic vocabulary can have acquired distinctiveness through long-term promotion and use, so the "proper use" of a trademark of the "generic term" nature is limited to the use of the first meaning of the term, i.e. the literal and inherent meaning of the word(s); The use of the second meaning of a "generic term" is actually an infringement act of the good reputation of another's well-known trademarks.
The profitability of investing in domain names and the loopholes in the industry management have brought various chaos in the domain name registration industry.
This case involves the determination of commercial disparagement committed by employees of a company through their personal social media accounts. WeChat Moments has now become an important channel for information dissemination, and a considerable number of operators have used WeChat Moments as a marketing place to release promotional content.
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