None
EN
China: navigating non-use cancellations before the CNIPA
['Shanshan Du', 'Nicole Yu', 'View Full Biography', 'Ronald A Dicerbo', 'Dorien J Clark', 'Jacqueline Vega', 'Rebecca Liebowitz', 'Sahar A Ahmed', 'Steven Kennedy', 'Jennifer Mckenzie']
WTR
The trademark holder ordered gifts from other backpack manufacturers, including backpacks and suitcases labelled with the brands of the manufacturers.
The logo design reference image shows that these products are also marked with the disputed trademark.
So, to what extent does the use of a mark constitute the effective use of a registered mark?
As such, the focal point in cancellation proceedings with respect to a mark is not whether it is exactly the same as the registered mark but whether it changes the dominant feature of the registered mark.
It took four and a half years from lodging the non-use cancellation to receiving the judgment from the Supreme People’s Court.