Trademark

Chinese food companies fined $32,000 for infringing Japanese throat refresher trademarks

China’s Shanghai Intellectual Property Court on January 20 upheld a lower court’s ruling ordering Hangzhou Hohsi Industrial Co., Ltd. (杭州禾玺实业有限公司) and Fujian Jinjiang Zhenkouwei Food Co., Ltd. (福建省晋江市真口味食品有限公司) to pay 200,000 yuan

Eileen Gu and mascot Bing Dwen Dwen trademark applications refused

Over 400 Chinese companies’ bids to trademark the name of Chinese Olympic athelets and the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics mascots Bing Dwen Dwen and Shuey Rhon Rhon were refused an

New evidence emerges in Red Bull trademark dispute

An article with the Tripartite Agreement on the Assignment of the “Bullfighting” Trademark Owned by Two Jinhua-Based Companies

Chinese EV maker HiPhi sues Renault for trademark infringement

China’s electric vehicle (EV) maker Human Horizons said on January 20 that an interim injunction has been granted by a German court against the German subsidiary of French carmaker Renault, which Human Horizons accused of infringing the logo of HiPhi, an EV brand owned by it.

Guangdong releases 6 exemplary cases of punitive damages in IPRs infringement

In the past three years, 148 cases of intellectual property rights infringement were tried and closed with punitive damages awarded. Of the total, 67 cases were tried and closed in 2021 alone, with the largest award of 30 million yuan ($4.7 million) in damages.