Criminal way may be the last method that trademark owners will think of for protecting their trademarks. Some people think the criminal procedure is hard to be initiated and focuses on punishment rather than compensation which the trademark owners want most. Those thoughts are right, in principle, but in some certain situations which one of …
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According to a notice issued by Shanghai Municipal Administration of Industry and Commerce (Shanghai Municipal AIC), applications for recognition as a Well-known Trademark within Shanghai of 2016 started on April 1 st . The annual meeting of the Shanghai Trademark Association was held on April 25 th 2016. Of course Lehman Lee and Xu, as …
March 24, a southern newspaper reported that because of the words “Hangzhou’s best fried snack shop” on bags for sugar coated chestnuts, the Xihu District Market Supervisory Authority decided that the advertisement violated the Chinese Advertising Law. The sugar coated chestnut shop’s boss was fined 元200,000. The punishment sparked controversy. A common view is that …
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Now, being one of the well-known smartphones, iPhone possesses high market share in China. Almost everyone considers that as a trademark, “IPHONE” should particularly belong to Apple. However, a recent administrative judgment broke up Apple’s monopoly plan with regard to their ownership of “IPHONE” series trademarks. On March 31, 2016, the Beijing Municipal High People’s …
Bidding of Baidu has recently been bitterly condemned, especially after the death of Wei Zexi, who was cheated by an irresponsible hospital whose ads are listed on the top of the searching engine of Baidu. The so called bidding refers to that you can pay a competitive price to make your information (most are ads) …
Recently, General Administration of Customs of PRC published ten typical cases regarding infringement of trademark rights, proudly to say, two of which were represented by our law firm. The publication of these cases is a signal of enhancing trademark protection by China’s government, not only for domestic brands, but also for foreign brands. Trademark protection, …
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Lehman, Lee & Xu is proud to announce that in May this year the firm will be sending a delegation to the 138 th INTA in Orlando, Florida. In regards to the conference, Edward Lehman has the following to say: Attending INTA is something that I have done every year since before I qualified as …
A criminal case occurred in Sichuan Normal University recently has been the focus of attention not only because an undergraduate has been killed by one of his roommate in a very cruel way, but also because the suspect’s mother claimed that her son has mental disease and used to commit suicide for twice, which according …
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I am recently helping a client to establish a foreign owned corporation which manufactures and sells medical devices in Guangzhou. Things went smooth at first, but in the final step of AIC( Administration of Industry and Commerce) registration, I was really tortured by the rigid and unreasonable requirements of the department. That may sound ridiculers …
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We have been doing a lot of due diligence work recently where we investigate a target company for corporate compliance issues. In one recent example, we found that a subsidiary of our target company had been put on the State Enterprise Credit Information Public System’s (Public Credit System, or PCS) list of Abnormally Operating Enterprises, …
Watch Out! Don’t Let Your Company Find Itself on the List of Abnormal Enterprises. Read More »
