In October 2018, the
Trademark Office released its annual report on the Intellectual Property
activities in 2017. According to statistic, in 2017 the TMO received 1.318
appeals against refusals on granting IP protection titles (including 29 appeals
to patents, 03 to utility solutions, 19 to industrial designs and 1,267 to trademarks), in which 730 appeals
(55% of the total) were finished the formality check.
With regard to
cancellation actions against registrations, the TMO has handled 43 appeals,
i.e. accepted to cancel 15 trademark registrations, refused to cancel
protection titles of 16 trademarks; 03 industrial designs; refused 63 appeal
requests for cancellation of 9 protection titles.
At present, the TMO’s
capacity could cover about 55% of works. Most of which belong to simple cases,
e.g. applicant submits a letter of consent from the trademark owner in support
of the appeal. The other complicated cases are routinely prolonged.
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