protected under both trademark and copyright law. But a trademark based entirely on copyright-protected work, such as in this case, carries a “certain risk of monopolisation” of the sign for a specific
Wang Chao from Zhengzhou, Henan province, has received many calls from strangers since early December, asking to buy a trademark he owns. The highest bid to buy the trademark so far has been 600,000
September 2006, the Jinjiang Administration for Industry and Commerce seized 2,010 pairs of counterfeit sports shoes bearing the trademark representation "NIKE" and 480 pairs of sports shoes bearing the
A US resident has filed an application to register ‘I Can’t Breathe’ as a trademark. Catherine Crump filed a trademark application with the US Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) for the phrase
statement in newspapers to eliminate ill effects, and compensate RMB 100,000 yuan to American Levi Strauss & Co. Levi Strauss & Co is the owner of the trademark "Levi's" which has also been registered
A local self-employed man was sentenced to five years in jail and fined 50,000 yuan by Shanghai No. 1 Intermediate People's Court for trademark infringement to the hair conditioner brand Bee Flowers.
A Shanghai court heard an appeal yesterday brought by a Chinese firm that was found guilty of trademark infringement last year. In November, the Pudong New Area People's Court found that FirstTrust
China's welfare lottery center recently filed a lawsuit in Beijing No 1 Intermediate People's Court against the State Administration for Industry and Commerce Trademark Appeal Board over its ruling
The New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) has accused a financial advisory company called New York Shell Exchange of unfairly trading with an identical name to its registered trademarks and diluting its “fa...
about trademark registration and patent protection remains low, " says Wei. In the case of Goubuli, the Japanese company failed to replicate the bun's true recipe, so the firm was not enthusiastic about