On 6 November, the General Court of the European Union ruled in case T-544/23 on a dispute involving PUMA's figurative marks No. 08461469 and No. 012697066. In 2020, Mr Yukai Zheng, a resident of Chin...
Recently, the Hangzhou Intermediate People's Court of Zhejiang Province concluded the first-instance trial of a case involving trademark infringement and unfair competition in the modification of
Seoul-based Penta Security Systems Inc. (Applicant). Penta, a provider of web and data security products, solutions and services, applied for the Wapples trademark (Application Mark) on December 3
On July 21, 2025, the Hangzhou Intermediate People's Court issued a landmark second-instance decision in a trademark infringement and unfair competition case involving the "G. Patton" brand
Brazil has kept up its efforts to improve the protection and enforcement of IPR over the reporting period. The Brazilian IPR Office (INPI) continues reducing the patent and trade mark backlogs. INPI h...
brands. The High Court of Justice in London ruled in 2022 that Samsung had committed trademark infringement. Samsung appealed, arguing that the watch faces were uploaded by third‑party developers
In December 2025 and May 2026, the Grand Board of Appeal of the European Union Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO) issued final decisions in three trademark applications – namely “GEORGEORWELL
The Hangzhou Intermediate People’s Court of Zhejiang Province has recently concluded the first-instance trial of the first virtual goods trademark infringement case. This case has clarified that the
, Ltd. and two other defendants regarding trademark infringement and unfair competition. The court ultimately ordered the three defendants to jointly and severally pay economic losses and reasonable
On July 27, 2026, Luckin Coffee officially announced that its trademark infringement lawsuit in Thailand had reached a final and binding victory. On July 8, the Thai Special Case Court of Appeal