Faster trademark examination and a 50% reduction in official filing fees contributed to growth in opposition filings in 2017. The Trademark Office received 72,575 oppositions, up 26.9%, and completed 63,004 examinations, up 30.7%. Approximately 17,000 oppositions succeeded in full, 4,489 in part and 41,000 were rejected. The full or partial success rate rose from 28.8% in 2016 to 34.25%.
The original chart’s yearly figures, expressed as applications / decisions / full or partial success rate, were: 2015, 57,999 / 66,182 / 26%; 2016, 57,180 / 48,190 / 28.80%; and 2017, 72,575 / 63,004 / 34.25%.
Among approximately 22,000 decisions refusing registration in whole or part, 5,734 involved preventing bad-faith registration, representing 26.6% of successful or partly successful oppositions.
Article 7 on good faith was applied in 1,212 cases, or 5.6%; Article 13 on extended protection of well-known marks in 2,352, or 10.91%; Article 15 on preemptive registration by agents or representatives in 246, or 1.13%; and Article 32 on other prior rights and bad-faith preemptive registration in 1,924, or 8.92%. Article 7 is often applied together with other provisions, so these categories overlap.
Source: http://sbj.saic.gov.cn/sbtj/201805/W020180513829986812509.pdf