Eliminating trademark squatting with recent amendments to China’s trademark law
The Chinese Trademark Law has recently been the subject of a draft change released by the Chinese Intellectual Property Office. The draft aims to deal with the problems of fraudulent trademark applications and trademark squatting. This amendment would have a significant impact on a number of areas of Chinese trademark law and practice if it were to be implemented in its current form without any additional changes. The People’s Republic of China’s National Intellectual Property Administration (CNIPA) published the draft [...]