{"id":369,"date":"2020-04-24T18:11:29","date_gmt":"2020-04-24T18:11:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.chinaiplawupdate.com\/?p=369"},"modified":"2021-03-08T05:11:13","modified_gmt":"2021-03-08T05:11:13","slug":"chinese-trademark-office-warns-applicants-against-fraudulent-mail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chinaiplawupdate.com\/2020\/04\/chinese-trademark-office-warns-applicants-against-fraudulent-mail\/","title":{"rendered":"Chinese Trademark Office Warns Applicants Against Fraudulent Mail"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On April 23, 2020, the <a href=\"http:\/\/sbj.cnipa.gov.cn\/\">Chinese Trademark Office<\/a> has <a href=\"http:\/\/sbj.cnipa.gov.cn\/tzgg\/202004\/t20200424_314634.html\">warned<\/a> applicants of a scam of someone sending a “trademark announcement” via mail to the applicant in order to defraud the applicant via payment of unnecessary fees.\u00a0 The Office reminds applicants that all notices since May 2016 are electronic and the receipt of Official Documents do not require the payment of fees.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>This is similar to a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sipo.gov.cn\/gztz\/1145496.htm\">Notice<\/a> issued by the Chinese Patent Office in January 2020 regarding a scam for “pay-as-you-go” courier mail for a “Patent Book” from the “\u201cIntellectual Property Service Center of Nanshan Street, Nanshan District, Shenzhen, Guangdong” requiring the payment of fees.<\/p>\n<p>Other intellectual property offices have issued similar fraud warnings, including the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office (USPTO) for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.uspto.gov\/trademarks-getting-started\/caution-misleading-notices\">misleading trademark notices<\/a>, the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) for<a href=\"https:\/\/www.wipo.int\/pct\/en\/warning\/pct_warning.html\"> fraudulent requests for payment of Patent Cooperation Treaty (PCT) fees<\/a>, and the European Patent Office for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.epo.org\/law-practice\/legal-texts\/official-journal\/2018\/03\/a29.html\">fraudulent publication or registration fees<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p class=\"excerpt\">On April 23, 2020, the Chinese Trademark Office has warned applicants of a scam of someone sending a “trademark announcement” via mail to the applicant in order to defraud the applicant via payment of unnecessary fees.\u00a0 The Office reminds applicants that all notices since May 2016 are electronic and the receipt of Official Documents do not require the payment of fees.<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.chinaiplawupdate.com\/2020\/04\/chinese-trademark-office-warns-applicants-against-fraudulent-mail\/\" 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":[4],"tags":[],"coauthors":[22],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.5 - 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