Court Calls for Establishment of Picture Copyright Trading Exchanges
Beijing Internet Court has called on netizens and intellectual property protection authorities to jointly safeguard the copyright of pictures in cyberspace after witnessing a boom in such disputes in the past two years.
Trade Marks (Amendment) Ordinance 2020 gazetted
The Trade Marks (Amendment) Ordinance 2020 (the Amendment Ordinance) was gazetted today (June 19), providing a basis in Hong Kong Law for the application of the Protocol Relating to the Madrid Agreement Concerning the International Registration of Marks (Madrid Protocol) in Hong Kong.
Survey: EU Businesses Recognize Marked Improvement in IP Legislation and Enforcement in China
On June 10, the European Union (EU) Chamber of Commerce in China, in cooperation with Roland Berger, released its European Business in China Business Confidence Survey 2020. According to the report, EU member companies operating in China believe that they have seen continuous progress on drafting and enforcing of IPR-related regulations in China and marked improvement has been made in IP protection laws and enforcement over the past decade.
Relief for the delay of statutory or specified time period of atent and trademark cases due to the Covid-19 pandemic
TIPO announced the relief for the delay of statutory or specified time period due to the Covid-19 pandemic.
Absolute grounds for refusal
Section 11 of the Ordinance sets out the “absolute grounds for refusal” of a trade mark.The “absolute” grounds are mainly concerned with the nature of the mark itself, as opposed to the “relative” grounds of refusal contained in section 12 which deal with conflict s of an applied for mark with earlier trade marks and earlier rights.
