On December 27, 2025, China’s National People’s Congress (NPC) released a draft of the Amended Trademark Law for Comment (中华人民共和国商标法（修订草案）). Some initial thoughts: A dedicated chapter has been added to consolidate and refine the previously scattered trademark registration conditions. The use of the name, flag, emblem, and medals of the Communist Party of China as trademarks is explicitly prohibited. The draft now allow “dynamic symbols” to be registered as trademarks, but color combinations, sounds, and dynamic effects that arise solely …
Category: Trademarks
China’s National Intellectual Property Administration to Strengthen Management of Trademark Use
On November 21, 2025, China’s National Intellectual Property Administration (CNIPA) released the Notice from the General Office of the CNIPA on Strengthening the Management of Trademark Use (国家知识产权局办公室关于加强商标使用管理的通知). Objectives include “to use trademarks in a reasonable and standardized manner, continuously strengthen the supervision and governance of illegal and irregular use of trademarks, strictly regulate behaviors that deceive and mislead the public through false descriptions using trademarks, resolutely safeguard the legitimate and orderly order of trademark use, effectively protect the interests …
4.5-Year Prison Sentence for Chinese E-Commerce Platform Operator Hosting Merchants Selling Counterfeit Goods
On October 13, 2025, the Shanghai Putuo Primary People’s Court announced a criminal verdict against Xiao XX Yu Company and 5 people for operating e-commerce platform Xiao XX Yu that knowingly sold goods with counterfeit registered trademarks having a sales volume of 10.8 million RMB. The company was fined 3 million RMB and the company management were sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment ranging from 1 year, 11 months to 4 years, 6 months and were also fined.
3.5-Year Prison Sentence in China for Counterfeiting “DIOR” Service Marks
As reported by Shanghai Legal News and others, the Shanghai No. 3 Intermediate People’s Court upheld a 3.5-year prison sentence and 1.6 million RMB fine for the principal defendant for counterfeiting DIOR service marks. An accomplice was sentenced to one-year suspended sentence and 50,000 RMB fine. From 2020, the defendant Huang XX successively operated Sichuan Fu XX Company and other companies, and hired the defendant Wang XX and others. Without the permission of the registered service mark owner, he carried …