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Chinese Patent and Trademark Filings Grew Strongly in the First Half of 2018
China received 751,000 invention patent applications in the first half of 2018, a year-on-year increase of 33.6%.
Read article ↗Beijing Intellectual Property Court Speeds Up Jurisdictional Appeals
Abusive jurisdictional objections can delay civil intellectual property cases.
Read article ↗Trademark Oppositions Rose 26.9% in 2017; 34.25% Succeeded in Whole or Part
Faster trademark examination and a 50% reduction in official filing fees contributed to growth in opposition filings in 2017.
Read article ↗Assessing Similarity of Goods and Services in Chinese Trademark Practice
Are all goods or services in the same Chinese similarity group necessarily similar? If an application is refused because of a prior mark for similar goods or services, can the refusal be overcome on review by arguing that they are dissimilar.
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