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...
Summary The Delhi High Court clarified that trademark protection extends only to the specific goods within the class for which the mark is registered, and a proprietor cannot claim exclusivity over all goods in that class merely because of a similar mark, particularly when not using the mark for those goods. Introduction This appeal challenges the judgment of the Patiala House District Court, which dismissed the Appellant's application for interim injunction under Order 39 Rules 1 and 2 of the Code of Civil Procedure, 1908. The underlying suit seeks permanent injunction restraining the Respondent from using the trademark "PRUEASE" (Impugned Mark) on the ground that it is deceptively similar to the Appellant's trademark "PRO-EASE" (Subject Mark). Both marks are registered in Class 5 of the Trade Marks Registry, but are used for entirely different product categories within that class. Background and Facts The Appellant conceived and adopted the Subject Mark ...