Lung Tin Won the “Excellent Trademark Agency”, “MCM” Trademark Infringement and Unfair Competition Case Represented by Lung Tin Selected as “Typical Trademark Agency Case”

Publish Time:2023-06-06 17:47

From June 16th to 19th, 2023, the 13th China Trademark Festival was grandly held in Dongguan, China. On the evening of June 16th, at the highly anticipated trademark festival award ceremony, Lung Tin stood out from tens of thousands of intellectual property service institutions with its comprehensive excellent performance in the trademark field, won the honorary title of “Excellent Trademark Agency of 2021-2022”, and obtained Certificate of Trademark Use Permission for Trademark Agency Service. On June 17th, at the forum for the analysis of typical trademark cases, the “MCM” trademark infringement and unfair competition case represented by Lung Tin was selected as the “2021-2022 Typical Trademark Agency Case”.

This trademark festival, with the theme of “Trademark Empowers New Development, Brand Leads Dual Circulation”, consists of the 17th China Trademark Annual Meeting, 2023 China Brand Expo and a series of themed activities. Since 2005, the China Trademark Festival has been held for twelve consecutive years, attracting active participation from a large number of domestic and foreign trademark practitioners and receiving widespread attention from the society.

Lung Tin won the “Excellent Trademark Agency of 2021-2022”

The “Excellent Trademark Agency” is one of the outstanding awards of the Trademark Festival. Lung Tin has won this honor for eleven consecutive years with its stable development and excellent comprehensive strength. Over the years, Lung Tin’s trademark team has continuously explored and strived for excellence, accumulated rich experience in the field of trademark agency, handled a large number of successful cases with significant influence, and won unanimous recognition and praise from clients and colleagues in the industry.

Lung Tin obtained Certificate of Trademark Use Permission for Trademark Agency Service

At the welcome meeting of the 13th China Trademark Festival, the third batch of certificates of Trademark Use Permission for Trademark Agency Service was issued. Lung Tin obtained the certificate with its high-quality service level and standardized service process.

After in-depth investigation into specific situations such as agency procedures, standardized management documents, quality assessment mechanisms, and service standard settings of various major agencies by China Trademark Association, agencies that meet requirements are allowed to use the certified trademark that prove quality service for trademark agencies. This shows a high recognition of the service quality and level of agencies and its attorneys.

The “MCM” trademark infringement and unfair competition case was selected as a “2021-2022 Typical Trademark Agency Case”.

On June 17th, a forum for analyzing typical trademark cases initiated by China Trademark Association and undertaken by China Enterprise Trademark Identification Center was held at Guangdong (Dongguan) Modern International Exhibition Center. The forum released “2020-2021 Typical Cases of Trademark Agency” and “2021-2022 Typical Cases of Trademark Agency”. The “MCM” trademark infringement and unfair competition case represented by Lung Tin was selected as a “2021-2022 Typical Case of Trademark Agency” on account of its innovative, effective, typical and influential nature. This case involves restrictions on registered trademark exclusive rights and defenses against trademark infringement. It has high typical significance. This case explains issues such as relative protection scope of trademark rights and how to balance interests between prior users of trademarks and exclusive right holders of registered trademarks.

Professor Wang Yanfang from East China University of Political Science and Law commented on the “‘MCM’ trademark infringement and unfair competition case” at the forum and affirmed the work of Lung Tin’s trademark agent: “From this case we can see that the agent has done a lot of work to present prior use.”

The fact that Lung Tin won multiple awards at the 13th China Trademark Festival shows the affirmation from the industry on Lung Tin’s professional service capabilities in trademark field, as well as the recognition for Lung Tin’s trademark team. Lung Tin team will continue to work hard to fully play an exemplary role in industry, continuously improve professional strength, truly serve enterprise brand building, and contribute to building a strong intellectual property country!