Bad manufacturing contracts lead to bad products. Nearly all companies that have product problems would have avoided those problems had they used a good contract or done their due diligence on their product supplier before paying. In this post, we explain how best to avoid these common mistakes.
China's trademark office permits for the trademark registration of colors. However, though you can register a China trademark for a color combination, single color trademarks are not allowed. It is also required for China trademark registration that your color combination be distinctive. It is also important that you remember that China is a "fist to file" trademark country so if you want to register your color combination as a China trademark you must be sure to seek that registration first, before anyone else does.
How to protect your molds and tooling when manufacturing overseas
China trademarks and logos and picking your Chinese brand name. It's different there. Very.
China trademark protections just keep getting better
Being first to market is usually no protection at all. You must protect your IP from China with IP registrations and appropriate contracts.
Our international IP lawyers do a lot of work for clients seeking to remove listings of counterfeit goods from Chinese e-commerce sites. Most of these listings are for obviously, sometimes extravagantly counterfeit merchandise, offered in vast quantities at far-below retail prices, with pictures either lifted from the real manufacturer’s website or showing products of dubious quality,
I am not a big fan of filing Madrid Protocol applications for China. In certain situations, they can work well, but when they don’t work (which is fairly often) the trademark registration process takes longer and costs more than just filing a national application. See China Trademarks. Register Them In China Not Madrid. Filing a
When registering your trademark in China, it is important you choose your China trademark classes wisely and not choose to register in too many or in too few China trademark classes.
Unlike the United States, you do not need to prove "use" for a China trademark application to proceed to registration, and once a trademark is registered you do not have to prove you are still using trademark to be able to maintain or renew the registration for that trademark. Foreign companies have come to realize
