China News Service, May 8th. He Zhimin, deputy director of the State Intellectual Property Office, said on the 8th that the State Intellectual Property Office resolutely opposed and promptly cracked down on malicious trademark registration.
Since the beginning of this year, in terms of trademark substantive examination, the application of the new Trademark Law has rejected more than 10,000 malicious trademark registration applications that are not intended for use; a blacklist system has been established to include some applicants with more malicious registrations into the blacklist. In the list, relevant new applications are strictly monitored, and nearly 1,000 applicants suspected of malicious trademark registration have been added.
On the 8th, the State Council Information Office held a regular briefing on the State Council’s policies to deepen the reform of "delegating power, regulating services, and improving services" in the field of intellectual property rights.
At the meeting, a reporter asked questions about the malicious registration of trademark cybersquatting, what are the preventive measures or punishment measures in addition to the rejection?
He Zhimin pointed out that the State Intellectual Property Office resolutely opposed and promptly cracked down on malicious trademark registration activities, and actively guided the whole society to establish a correct awareness of trademark registration.
Four main areas of work have been carried out:
The first is to promote the improvement of relevant laws and regulations.
In the fourth revision of the Trademark Law, the threshold for combating malicious hoarding of trademark applications has been moved to the examination stage, which runs through the entire trademark application registration process.
The second is to perform accurate identification.
By setting up a lexicon of trademark review guidelines, some socially sensitive words and some important names are included in the lexicon, and comprehensive manual judgments are used to accurately identify malicious registration of trademarks during the review.
The third is to carry out classified disposal.
Quickly dismiss and expose those with major adverse social impact, so that relevant institutions and personnel will be condemned and condemned by the whole society.
The fourth is to organize special strikes.
Through the "Blue Sky" special rectification action and the special action against malicious squatting of trademarks, the local law enforcement agencies are encouraged to increase their crackdowns and form a high-pressure deterrent.
This includes both penalizing malicious applicants and penalizing some agencies that act as agents for them.
He Zhimin introduced that last year, the State Intellectual Property Office specially formulated the implementation opinions on severely cracking down on malicious trademark registration applications that are not used for the purpose, established a joint working mechanism, formed a multi-departmental joint attack on the whole process, and achieved positive results. .
Since the beginning of this year, in terms of trademark substantive examination, the application of the new Trademark Law has rejected more than 10,000 malicious trademark registration applications that are not intended for use; a blacklist system has been established to include some applicants with more malicious registrations into the blacklist. In the list, relevant new applications are strictly monitored, and nearly 1,000 applicants suspected of malicious trademark registration have been added.
He Zhimin said that in guiding the local bureaus to investigate and handle cases, the information of 17 applicants for "Clear Love"-related suspected malicious trademark registration applications was forwarded to the local law enforcement agencies, requiring verification and processing in accordance with laws and regulations.
In terms of strengthening the supervision of the agency industry, organize local law enforcement agencies to investigate and deal with the illegal acts of agencies, and promote the combating of malicious trademark registration applications that are not intended for use as an important content of the "Blue Sky" special action.
"In the next step, we will continue to improve the trademark legal system, strictly review according to law, increase penalties, strengthen credit supervision, expose cases in a timely manner, promote brand building, and promote high-quality development of intellectual property rights." He Zhimin said.