“Pengcheng” from Beijing Shunxin won the title of “well-known trademark”
It is released by the Trademark Review and Adjudication Board of State
Administration for Industry and Commerce recently, there are 12 well-known
marks recognized in the first half of this year, among which Pengcheng Food
Branch of Beijing Shunxin Agriculture Company stands first. Pengcheng Food
Branch is a national agricultural head corporation consists of livestock
breeding, livestock processing and slaughter, deep processing of meat
product, logistics and distribution. And it is the largest safe production
base of meat in Beijing area, its fresh meat product occupies 45% amount of
the Beijing market.
July 14, 2006
Source: www.21etm.com
Liuxiang’s “12.88” Record
worth 1,000,000
Liuxiang broke the world record with a time of 12.88 seconds, and just at
that time the number 12.88 were remembered by the world. The reporter
learned from a website of Dongguan which was specially in charge of
trademark registration and transfer that World Record “12.88” has sparked a
storm of trademark registration. Some people who specially engaged in
trademark investment had commissioned this website to buy the trademark at a
high price of one million.
It is introduced by Wenjun Wu, manager of the Huaxia Trademark Transfer
Network, during several hours after Liuxiang broke the record, someone had
entrusted them to register the trademark of “1288”. The register scope
covers all categories of registration including sport products. When they
were told that it was hard to be guaranteed to be the first to register, for
they had a risk to be invalid by the Industrial and Commercial Managerial
Department for the sameness. One registrant who was unwilling to tell his
name insisted that if he failed to register the trademark, he would like to
pay a big money to buy it.
Wenjun Wu also revealed, some customers tended to pay high price to buy 1288
and use this trademark as the domain name of their website. One of the
buyers expressed that he planed to exploit sport products with the
trademark. More interestingly, another Cantonese thought “1288” meaned “love
your farther”, therefore he wants to exploit gifts of Fathers’ day with this
trademark.
July 19, 2006 Source:
www.21etm.com
Beijing Olympic Committee warned the abuse of
Olympic symbols
“New Beijing, Great Olympics”, “Beijing 2008”, “Friendlies”…... these
Publicity slogans and mascots concerning Olympic Games were used more and
more. But these letter slogans and figure marks can not be used freely;
otherwise it will go against some relevant provisions of Olympic
intellectual property protection.
On July 26, a seminar was held by Beijing Olympic Committee in the title of
“To make a good intellectual property protection environment for the 2008
Beijing Olympic Games” for publicizing the provisions concerning Olympic
Intellectual Property Protection to many enterprises.
The legal affairs department of Beijing Olympic Committee publicized the
main action and legal consequences about the infringement of the exclusive
right of Olympic marks. Beijing Olympic Committee reminds that everyone
should obey Olympic Logo Protection Ordinance and Beijing Olympic
Intellectual Property protection provisions when using the Olympic symbols.
Whatever concerned with Olympic symbols during the procedure of production,
process, sales, import or export and advertisement, should be confirmed
about its right condition by the Legal Affairs Department of Beijing Olympic
Organization Committee.
It is said that some enterprises including Lenovo Ltd. (Beijing) and Beijing
Beida Fangzheng Corporation put forward a proposal about the protection of
Olympic Intellectual Property. They called on to respect the legitimate
rights and interests of the right owner of Olympic marks, and actively took
part in the movement of protecting Olympic intellectual property, and
fulfill the social responsibility of the protection of Olympic intellectual
property carefully.
July 27, 2006
Source: www.xinhua.com
Chinese Brand Billboard will be released in August
On July 14, the committee of Chinese Brand Billboard announced to the public
officially that the magnificent promulgation ceremony of the “Aigo” Brand
Billboard will be held on August 8.This brand ceremony will review and
conclude Chinese brand business of 25 years since china revolution and
opening up to the outside world (1980-2005).
It is learned that series of selecting activity relevant to Brand China
Billboard is mainly launched by 11 units including Brand China Industrial
Federation, China International Public Relations Association (CIPRA), China
Private Economic Research Committee, Education Department of All-china
Federation of Industry and Commerce and so on. The comment will summarize
the 25-year development of Chinese brands from aspects of city, enterprise,
person and cases since Chinese revolution and opening up. And it will come
out “25 Chinese typical model cities”, “25 Chinese typical model
enterprises”, “25 Chinese Meritorious model people”, “25 Chinese influential
cases” through strict process and rules. It is aimed to give advocacy and
recognition to the models who had made outstanding achievements and achieved
important influences during the construction of Chinese brands, so as to
lead the innovation activity of local brands.
July 26, 2006 Source:
www.cnipr.com
Changan and Jiangnan on the court for the dispute of the
trademark ownership of “Auto”
On May 24, 2006, with regard to the lawsuit of Changan cars Co. Ltd. and
Jiangnan Machine Co. Ltd., the Trademark Review and Adjudication Board of
State Administration for Industry and Commerce made a decision respectively.
They thought that though Changan Corporation registered the “Auto” trademark
first, but considering the historical reasons of “Auto”, any party shouldn’t
deny the history and the reasonable use of the trademark by the original
coexistence after obtained the exclusive use right of the trademark “Auto”.
Both Changan Group and Jiangnan Corporation are not satisfied with the
decision made by Trademark Review and Adjudication Board, and have made
other administrative litigations respectively to the first Intermediate
People's Court. Our reporter learned yesterday, the court has accepted this
administrative case of trademark and will hear it openly in August.
July 27, 2006 Source:
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