{"id":273,"date":"2020-02-27T21:26:57","date_gmt":"2020-02-27T21:26:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.chinaiplawupdate.com\/?p=273"},"modified":"2021-03-08T05:11:27","modified_gmt":"2021-03-08T05:11:27","slug":"chinese-trademark-office-cracks-down-on-malicious-filing-of-coronavirus-related-trademarks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chinaiplawupdate.com\/2020\/02\/chinese-trademark-office-cracks-down-on-malicious-filing-of-coronavirus-related-trademarks\/","title":{"rendered":"Chinese Trademark Office Cracks Down on Malicious Filing of Coronavirus-Related Trademarks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In a <a href=\"http:\/\/sbj.cnipa.gov.cn\/gzdt\/202002\/t20200227_312227.html\">notice<\/a> dated February 27, 2020, the <a href=\"http:\/\/sbj.cnipa.gov.cn\/\">Chinese Trademark Office<\/a> announced issuance of the Guidelines for the Examination of Epidemic Prevention and Control-Related Trademarks, which provides guidance on the examination of marks for the names of people involved in the epidemic, marks\u00a0 related to the epidemic virus and disease, marks related to epidemic-related drugs, marks for\u00a0 protective products (e.g., respirators), and other marks related to the epidemic.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Specifically mentioned examples include <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Huoshenshan_Hospital\">Huoshen Mountain Hospital<\/a> (\u706b\u795e\u5c71\u533b\u9662, literally, Vulcan Mountain Hospital) and <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Leishenshan_Hospital\">Leishen Mountain Hospital<\/a> (\u96f7\u795e\u5c71\u533b\u9662, literally, Thor Mountain Hospital) and Doctor LI Wenliang (\u674e\u6587\u4eae). The hospitals are frontline hospitals in Wuhan fighting the epidemic that were constructed in just weeks.\u00a0 Dr. Li was an ophthalmologist at Wuhan Central Hospital that died from the coronavirus after being disciplined by police for warning of the new virus before the virus was officially announced.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Registration\u00a0 of the hospital names by applicants other than the Hospitals\u00a0 as a trademark is likely to cause significant social adverse effects according to the Trademark Office and therefore can only be registered by the hospitals themselves. A\u00a0 Changsha company also submitted a trademark registration application for the name of Dr. Li, which aroused public concern.\u00a0 The Trademark Office stated similarly, “the use or registration of his name as a trademark is likely to cause significant social adverse effects.” Accordingly, his name cannot be registered as a mark.<\/p>\n<p>The Trademark Office has already taken action on over 1,000 trademark applications related to the coronavirus.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p class=\"excerpt\">In a notice dated February 27, 2020, the Chinese Trademark Office announced issuance of the Guidelines for the Examination of Epidemic Prevention and Control-Related Trademarks, which provides guidance on the examination of marks for the names of people involved in the epidemic, marks\u00a0 related to the epidemic virus and disease, marks related to epidemic-related drugs, marks for\u00a0 protective products (e.g., respirators), and other marks related to the epidemic.<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.chinaiplawupdate.com\/2020\/02\/chinese-trademark-office-cracks-down-on-malicious-filing-of-coronavirus-related-trademarks\/\" class=\"button\">Continue Reading<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,4],"tags":[],"coauthors":[22],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.5 - 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