Munich Court accepts White House's claim for trademark case

Every trainee reporter? B from Beijing, June 10, White House Food Co., Ltd. held in Beijing, "White House trademark Transnational Rights" press conference, said the German court of Munich has formally accepted the White House to sue Germany Owen Kelly Company (Okai) to recover the trademark case, this is following Wangzhihe and V. Germany Owen Kelly Company malicious registration trademark case,　　China's first domestic food companies to take up legal weapons overseas rights.　　It is reported that Okai company by the German-Chinese start-up, the main sales from China's food, its registration of trademarks in addition to the white home to facilitate the fans and Beijing Wang Gio, but also include this Mairong, contact, old godmother, Pi, Ji-xiang live pickles, such as a number of Chinese food brand trademarks. "At present, the negotiation and other companies have been registered to wait and see attitude, has not expressed the willingness to jointly prosecute, after all, the cost of litigation is very high, and there is the risk of losing."　　"White House food agent lawyer Wang Hongqing said. 2006, Wang Gio first took up the legal weapons, began the Chinese old enterprise overseas Rights Protection Road.　　At the end of April this year, Wangzhihe and the German company Owen Kelly registered trademark case, after more than two years of litigation, the end of the "Wangzhihe and" trademark returned to the successful conclusion of the period. As early as November 2006, the White House food also found that the company in recent years in the global market use of trademarks by German distributors Okai company in the European Union, followed by the White House repeatedly with okai negotiations without fruit.　　At the beginning of 2008, the White family formally initiated the legal process, two degrees to submit a letter of attorney, finally in Wangzhihe and abroad after the victory of May 20, 2009, formally to the German district Court of Munich filed a lawsuit and was accepted. This lawsuit, the White House is for Wang and the protection of the original class lawyers team, Chinese lawyer Wang Hongqing pointed out that the "White House" trademark in 2004 in the United Kingdom successfully registered in the country is a "well-known trademarks in China", okai companies malicious to register the facts clearly, coupled with the case of similar cases of Wangzhihe and the case soon,　　All the favorable factors led Wang to express his confidence in winning the lawsuit. White House Food Co., Ltd. Chairman Chen Zhaohui stressed that he did not care about the amount of the claim, the main purpose of the prosecution is to retrieve the right trademark. Chen Zhaohui said that if in advance in overseas sales countries registered trademarks in total costs only hundreds of thousands of yuan, but once involved in trademark infringement cases, the cost of a lawsuit will be millions of dollars. Wang Hongqing Lawyers also suggested that companies have overseas sales plan, you can first in the target country to apply for a registered trademark, in order to prevent infringement.