作者: 钟鑫 , 杨晓荃 和 刘勃

2022年1月26日财政部、税务总局发布《关于基础设施领域不动产投资信托基金(REITs)试点税收政策的公告》(财政部 税务总局公告2022年第3号)(以下简称“3号公告”),公募REITs试点税收政策正式出台。

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Authored by: Zhang Yunwei (Mark) , Yang Fan , Li Lingbi and Cui Yangyang

Under the Chinese medical device regulatory regime, as filing/registration is compulsory prior to marketization, the legality of use of unregistered in vitro diagnostics reagents (“IVD”) in laboratory-developed testing (“LDT”) has been in a grey area for a long time.

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著者:徐静 张超(知识产权部)

 

 

 

金杜チームは、クライアントのシーメンス社を代理して高圧可変周波数ドライブに関する特許侵害事件において、権利侵害製品の実物を提出しなかった場合、書面による証拠のみにより権利侵害に認定するよう裁判所を成功に説得するとともに、損害賠償の訴訟請求も全額支持された。本事件は、実物の挙証に不便な大型工業設備に関する特許侵害認定に、参考の価値のある訴訟策略を提供した。

Continue Reading 金杜は、シーメンス社を代理して権利侵害対比用の製品の実物がないのに特許侵害と認定され損害賠償の主張も全額支持されたことに成功した

Written by:Xu Jing Zhang Chao(Intellectual Property)

 

 

 

In a patent infringement case involving medium-voltage drives, the KWM team representing the client Siemens successfully convinced the court to establish the infringement by relying on written evidence only, without any physical sample of the accused product for technical comparison, and the claim for damages was fully supported by the court. This case provides a new approach on evidence production for patent infringement cases, which may be a valuable reference in particular for a patent involving an industrial equipment, of which the physical sample may be too large to be submitted to the court.

Continue Reading KWM team represented Siemens in successfully enforcing a patent without any physical product for technical comparison and had damages claim fully supported by the court

作者:徐静 张超(知识产权部)

 

 

 

金杜团队代理客户西门子公司在一件涉及高压变频器的专利侵权案件中,在未提供侵权产品实物进行比对的情况下,仅依赖书面证据成功说服法院作出侵权认定,并且损害赔偿的诉讼请求得到了全额支持。该案为不方便举证实物的大型工业设备专利侵权认定提供了可资借鉴的诉讼思路。

Continue Reading 金杜成功代表西门子在没有产品实物进行侵权比对的情形下获得专利侵权认定并且损害赔偿主张得到全额支持

Written by:Xu Jing Ye Wanli(Intellectual Property)

 

 

 

 

Fighting against trademark piracy has become one of the priorities in the governance of trademark system in China for years, which has also been a long-time headache to genuine brand owners. The most common strategy is to file oppositions to defeat registration of the pirate marks, in order to avoid market confusion among the public if the pirate marks are used for commerce. While most of the bad-faith filing can be defeated at the early stage under the current practice, the strategy incurs significant costs for genuine brand owners – legal costs, such as attorney fees for filing oppositions, are substantially higher than the costs of trademark pirates. This imbalance of costs makes trademark piracy “unstoppable”, resulting in continuous and strong interference with ordinary business operation of genuine brand owners.

Continue Reading Trademark Piracy Results in Civil Liabilities? Note on Emerson Electric v. Xiamen Anjier

Written by:Liao Fei(Intellectual Property)

 

 

 

 

On April 13, 2022, the CNIPA issued the “Notice on Continuously Cracking down on Malicious Trademark Registrations” (hereinafter referred to as “the Notice”), continuing to maintain the high-pressure “zero tolerance” posture and the normalized crackdown mode. The Notice stressed that strengthened efforts will be made to fight against malicious hoarding and preemptive registration in trademark, which are highlighted by the activities of “hoarding ” and “free-riding” of trademarks, in accordance with the regulations on malicious application for trademark registration with no intent to use as in the “Guidelines for Trademark Examination and Trial”.

Continue Reading CNIPA Releases “Notice on Continuously Cracking down on Malicious Trademark Registrations”

作者:徐静 叶万理(知识产权部)

 

 

 

 

商标抢注可谓是我国商标领域多年来治理的重点,也是品牌商心中之痛。一直以来,面对大批量抢注且注而不用的行为,权利人的常规处理方式是通过异议阻止注册,以防止对方商标注册后的使用,引起市场混淆。尽管根据目前商标行政程序制止抢注的规则,绝大多数恶意抢注商标都能够被扼杀于摇篮,防患于未然;但权利人为制止抢注而付出的代价,即商标异议程序等付出的费用包括律师代理费均远远高于抢注人的注册成本,这就使得抢注现象依然屡禁不止,权利人不堪其扰。 Continue Reading 商标抢注也需承担民事赔偿责任 ——浅析艾默生公司诉厦门安吉尔水公司不正当竞争纠纷案

作者:廖飞(知识产权部)

 

 

 

 

2022年4月13日,国家知识产权局发布《关于持续严厉打击商标恶意注册行为的通知》,继续保持高压“零容忍”态势和常态化打击方式,强调按照《商标审查审理指南》规定的不以使用为目的的商标恶意注册申请若干情形,强化整治以“囤商标”“傍名牌”“搭便车”“蹭热点”为突出表现的商标恶意囤积和商标恶意抢注行为。

Continue Reading 国家知识产权局发布《关于持续严厉打击商标恶意注册行为的通知》