From 22 to 25 September 2026, the 40th MARQUES Annual Conference took place in Lisbon, Portugal, bringing together professionals from across the global brand protection community. Held under the theme “The Exciting Evolution of Trademarks,” this year’s conference explored how trademarks and brands are evolving as businesses adopt new technologies, engage with consumers in new ways and navigate increasingly complex regulatory environments.
On December 5th, 2019, Chambers and Partners published 2020 Asia-Pacific Guide. Founded in 1969, the agency is globally accepted as one of the international authorities on legal rating.
Asialaw Profiles, an internationally renowned legal rating agency, has recently published the lists of Chinese law firm recommendations and the leading individuals 2020.
On September 27, 2019, the Government of Malaysia deposited its instrument of accession to the Madrid Protocol with WIPO’s Director General, making Malaysia the 106th member of the Madrid System, which now covers 122 countries. The Protocol will enter into force for Malaysia on December 27th, 2019.
On the eve of the European International Trademark Conference MARQUES, Simon Tsi, the managing partner of Chang Tsi & Partners, and founding partner Spring Chang, arrived in Buenos Aires, Argentina, on September 5, 2019. A two-day visit and study was conducted with law firms in Argentina.
On August 30, 2019, Chang Tsi & Partners and its software partner, China Great Wall Technology Group, celebrated the launch of a new office management system at the firm’s Beijing office.
China currently does not have specific requirements to determine whether a trademark can be recognized as well-known. Obtaining well-known trademark recognition is reasonably difficult. This article will use one of our clients, Skechers, as an example to discuss the challenges and benefits of obtaining well-known trademark recognition in China.
We are pleased to announce that Chang Tsi & Partners recently added five new partners and senior consultants to the firm.
Recently, the Jianfa v. Michael Kors case, named “Deal of the year” and “The Top Ten Intellectual Property Case with Research Value”, was finally concluded. Managing Partner Simon Tsi, and Partner Michael Fu from Chang Tsi & Partners represented Michael Kors (hereafter referred as “Defendant”) to win the second instance trademark infringement case, wherein all the claims by Shantou Chenghai Jianfa Handbag Craft Factory (hereafter referred as “Plaintiff”) were rejected.
In order to further reduce the burden of IP right owner and stimulate economic development, recently, Ministry of Finance of China and National Development and Reform Commission published the Announcement of Patent and Trademark Application Fee Reduction for 2019.
National Development and Reform Commission and the Ministry of Commerce issued the 2019 edition of Negative List for Market Entry of Foreign Investment ("Negative List") and Catalogue of Guidance on Encouraged Foreign-investment Industry ("Catalogue") on June 30th, 2019.
There is a continuously rising number of IP litigation cases in China in the past five years. For example, the number of civil, administrative and criminal IP cases newly filed before the courts in 2018 reached 334,951, according to the Annual Report on the Judicial Protection of Intellectual Property Rights of Chinese Courts (2018), which is an increase of 97,709 (41.19%) over 2017.
