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China PRC Trademarks Rankings

WIPR Insights Trademarks Rankings 2023: China

WIPR Insights presents its inaugural rankings of the leading PRC and international firms trademark firms and lawyers. Trademarks can represent the most valuable asset of a company, and China is arguably the global hotspot for international brands seeking to protect the value of their most important goods and services.

Newest forms of attack against patent NPES

A great deal has been written concerning patent non-practising entities, also commonly referred to as patent assertion entities and by the pejorative label ‘patent trolls’

The 'open litis principle' in Mexican IP cases

The use of the ‘open litis principle’ in Mexico favours the party that challenges an administrative IP decision. IP rights holders should approach this type of appeal with caution, explains Carlos Hernández.

Use it or lose it

Peru’s National Institute of the Defence and Protection of Intellectual Property (INDECOPI) tends to be very rigorous in checking the use of trademarks that third parties are trying to have cancelled.