Strengthening the crackdown on bad faith trademarks was a focus of China's trademark law and practice in 2019. In this article, we review the main highlights of the past year in China's combatting bad faith trademark registrations from the perspective of laws and regulations, trademark data, and typical cases.
Regulation of bad faith applications, hoarding of registrations, and other acts are the key content of this amendment of the Trademark Law of the People's Republic of China (the "Trademark Law"). Specifically, the following provisions are added to the Trademark Law to strengthen the crackdown on bad faith applications for trademark registration.