China's trademark review period shortened to 1 years

October rejected trademark application 230,000 cases of infringement counterfeit case 3,010 cumulative registered geographical indications breakthrough Thousands newspaper Beijing, December 9 (reporter Fuzomme) reporter from today's state Council News Office press conference was informed: as of December 9, China this year a total of 1.402 million applications for trademark registration, trademark review cycle has been shortened to 1 years.　　The shortening of the trademark registration period has greatly increased the trademark registration application volume, which has exceeded the million mark and reached 1.003 million pieces.　　According to statistics, as of December 9, China's trademark registration cumulative application of 8.213 million pieces, cumulative registered trademarks of 5.545 million, effective registered trademarks of 4.481 million, are ranked first in the world.　　Ching, deputy director of the State administration of industry and commerce, pointed out that the number of trademark registration applications from the restoration of unified registration 1980 years of 26,000 development to this year to break the million mark, for 9 consecutive years the world's first.　　Next, the business sector will continue to speed up the application of trademark registration review, so that the review cycle from the current 12 months to 10 months, objections and dispute case trial period shortened to 20 months, reached the international advanced level. Li Jianchang, director of the Trademark Bureau of the State Administration of industry and Commerce, said in a news conference that in January-October this year, a total of 1.22 million applications for trademark registration were rejected and 230,000 applications were dismissed. In particular, October, November, a total of 257,000 applications to review trademark registration, 38,000 rejected by law, including a lot of malicious applications.　　Revocation of 17 registered trademarks. It is understood that the Ministry of Commerce and Industry to strengthen the protection of China's overseas trademarks, successfully avoided or resolved the name of 52 enterprises in China as a trademark in Canada by malicious registration, "Confucius Institute" trademark in Costa Rica was maliciously registered, "Zhenjiang vinegar" trademark in South Korea was malicious registration and other issues.　　At present, we are actively helping to resolve the case of 28 well-known corporate trademarks registered in the African Intellectual Property Organization. It is reported that the crackdown on intellectual property rights and selling fake commodities since the launch, as of December 2, the national industrial and commercial authorities at all levels of the law enforcement officers sent 201161 people, inspection operators 487564 households, has filed a case for infringement of counterfeit cases 3,010, Involving 44.2045 million yuan, confiscated amount of 18.8758 million yuan. Receive and deal with consumer complaints and report 6,037, for consumers to recover the economic loss of 26.47 million yuan.　　Effectively hit the infringement of counterfeit illegal acts, deter criminals, special action has achieved initial results. Up to now, our country has accumulated registration and preliminary validation of 1012 geographical indications, including 37 foreign geographical indications, breakthrough 1000 mark, geographical indications nearly three years of registration and preliminary approval amount equivalent to 15 times in the past 2.36 times years. The role of the rich peasant in the construction of the new countryside is obvious and the effect is remarkable.