In order to thoroughly implement the CPC Central Committee and the State Council’s decisions and arrangements about how to comprehensively strengthen intellectual property protection, to improve the quality and efficiency of case solving and to effectively deter intellectual-property-infringement activities, the State Intellectual Property Office Organized the selection work of classic administrative intellectual-property-protection cases. After selection, online voting and expert review, a total of 30 classic administrative intellectual-property-protection cases were reported on 26th, April.

Among these released cases, there are 10 classic trademark cases, 10 classic patent cases and 10 classic cases about geographical indications, Olympic logos and special marks.

10 classic trademark cases cover traditional trademarks such as words, images and letters, and new trademarks like those consisted of combined colors. The types of these cases include trademark infringement handling, trademark general infringement, well-known trademark infringement, etc..

10 classic patent cases cover three types of patent: invention patent, utility model patent and design patent. The Types of these cases include administrative adjudication of patent infringement disputes, counterfeit patent handling, administrative mediation of patent rewards, etc..

And those 10 classic cases about geographical indications, Olympic logos and special marks cover collective marks of Bordeaux wine in the first product list of the EU-China Agreement on Geographical Indications, Olympic words, graphic indications and special symbols for activities to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the founding of the Communist Party of China. And the types of these 10 cases are unauthorized use of geographical indications as product names, collective-trademark infringement, exclusive right to use trademarks, Olympic logos and special symbols.

These 30 selected cases are the most representative, concerned and influential ones in demonstrating the efficiency of administrative protection, cross-regional law-enforcement cooperation and collaborative intellectual-property protection. And they also showed our recent years’ success in actively fulfilling international treaties, comprehensively strengthening intellectual property protection, escorting major national events and continuously optimizing the innovation and marketing environment.

Attachment：Classic Cases of Administrative Intellectual-Property Protection in 2021.pdf