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- 2025-03-14
- Success Story: How Strategic Legal Insight Saved a Reserved Trademark
- Amid growing emphasis on trademark protection, enterprises must strategically manage trademark portfolios to avoid revocation risks. WEIPR recently assisted an automotive client in retaining a reserved trademark by demonstrating "...

- 2025-02-21
- Strategies for AI Patent Drafting: Avoiding Non-Patentable Subject Matter Risks
- In patent cases related to the AI field, the compliance of inventions with the requirements for patent protection in China, particularly regarding what constitutes a patentable subject matter, largely depends on the drafting skills and ...

- 2024-12-13
- On the Application of Article 44.1 of the Trademark Law – WEIPR Represented and Won an Administrative Lawsuit for Trademark Invalidation
- Legal basisArticle 44.1 of the Trademark Law: If a registered trademark violates the provisions of Article 4, Article 10, Article 11, Article 12 or Article 19.4 of this Law, or has been registered by deception or other improper m...

- 2024-10-17
- How to Safeguard Rights and Interests Facing Bad Faith Squatting of Trademark
- In production and business activities, operators often use trademarks in practice but fail to register them in a timely manner due to various reasons. When the "popular" trademarks used by operators are preemptively registered o...

- 2024-10-17
- Caution! The Omission of These Documents Can Have a Significant Impact on Trademark Registration
- During trademark application process, the Trademark Office sometimes issues a notice to the applicant. Some of the documents issued by the Trademark Office are transmitted in electronic form, and some are transmitted in the form of pa...

- 2024-08-08
- How to Identify a Well-Known Trademark?
- A well-known trademark refers to a trademark that is well-known to the relevant public in a specified field, such as Alibaba, Huawei, Google, etc. Unlike ordinary trademarks, which are confined to protection within the same class of go...
