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Suggestions on the criminal protection of trademark right in China

  • Journal of International Business Transactions Law
  • Abbr : IBT
  • 2020, (28), pp.1-24
  • DOI : 10.31839/ibt.2020.01.28.1
  • Publisher : The Institute for Legal Studies Dong-A University
  • Research Area : Social Science > Law > Private Law > International Commercial Transactions Law
  • Received : December 11, 2019
  • Accepted : January 10, 2020
  • Published : January 31, 2020

LI, YU 1 HUANGFU, MINGGUO 1

1青岛大学法学院

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ABSTRACT

With the advent of economic globalization, trademarks play an increasingly important role in the development of the world economy. From the “world intellectual property index” published by WIPO in 2019, we can see that the number of trademark applications has reached a new high, maintaining a nine-year continuous growth momentum. In 2018, there were about 49.3 million valid trademark registrations, an increase of 13.8% over 2017, including 19.6 million in China alone, 2.4 million in the United States, and 1.9 million in India. With the increase of the number of trademarks, the number of trademark infringement cases is also increasing, and the case also presents a trend of complexity and diversification. In this trend, we should perfect and analyze the trademark law and relevant laws in order to better realize the protection of trademark rights. The administrative protection of intellectual property is a relief mode with Chinese characteristics. The understanding of trademark infringement disputes is also mostly recognized as civil infringement disputes. In this situation, how to regulate trademark right through criminal relief is particularly important.At present, the trademark protection in the criminal law of our country is still very weak, and the relevant policy is not perfect. This makes some lawbreakers break the rights of trademark owners through legal loopholes, and then the interests of trademark owners will be lost. All in all, how to better realize the criminal protection of trademark rights is urgent.

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