Legislation roundup: Law firm reforms and product quality complaints
November 30, 2012 | BY
clpstaff &clp articlesThe Ministry of Justice has issued measures allowing law firms to fully engage in the trademark agency business by prosecuting trademarks and handling reviews of rejected applications. The Ministry also issued measures allowing Hong Kong and Macao firms to associate with more than one mainland firm
Intellectual property
Ministry of Justice, Measures for the Administration of the Engagement in Trademark Agency Business by Law Firms
Law firms are to be allowed to engage in full trademark agency services. In addition to international registration that does not use the Madrid System, administrative review, litigation, mediation, arbitration and other such trademark agency businesses that law firms have been allowed to engage in, they will now be allowed from January 1 2013, after record filing, to handle trademark prosecution and to ask for reviews of rejected applications.
(Full translation will be available in the Jan/Feb issue)
Further reading:
PRC Trademark Law (2nd Revision), Dec 2001/Jan 2002
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