Introduction China has completed the most consequential rewrite of its Trademark Law in over a decade. On June 26, 2026, the 23rd Meeting of the Standing Committee of the Fourteenth National People's Congress adopted a comprehensive revision of the Trademark Law of the People's Republic of China — the fifth amendment since the law was first enacted in 1982, and the first substantive overhaul since the narrow 2019 revision. The revised law, comprising 87 articles across nine chapters (up from 73 articles in eight chapters under the outgoing law), will enter into force on January 1, 2027. Trademarks registered before that date remain valid. For brand owners, in-house counsel, and IP practitioners with China exposure, this is not a routine update. The revision touches registration standards, opposition timelines, well-known mark protection, damages calculations, and — perhaps most significantly — the treatment of bad-faith and speculative filings that have long troubled foreig...
Delhi High Court Rejects Attempt to Import Claim Amendment from a Related Suit Without Amending Pleadings: Glaverbel S.A. vs. Dave Rose & Ors.
In a significant ruling on patent litigation procedure, Justice A.K. Pathak of the Delhi High Court, in Glaverbel S.A. vs. Dave Rose & Ors. , rejected an interlocutory application seeking to read into the present suit an amendment to a patent claim that had been allowed in a separate, related suit—without the plaintiff amending the pleadings in the present proceeding. The Court further relied on a certified copy obtained from the Patent Office, which confirmed that the amendment in question had not, in fact, been reflected or recorded in the official patent records. Background The plaintiff, vide Interlocutory Application No. 12535/2011 (filed under Section 151 of the Code of Civil Procedure, 1908), sought to amend Independent Claim 1 of the patent in suit in CS(OS) No. 594/2007, on the basis that an identical amendment had already been allowed in a related but separate suit, CS(OS) No. 593/2007. The claim as originally granted under Patent No. 190380 read as follows: "A M...