Trademark Use or Not? Trademark Infringement or Not? –The Supreme People’s Court of the P.R.C. Made its Latest Voice in an OEM Related Trademark Infringement Case

作者/编者:Jiao Hongbin and Liu Yuxin
作者单位:金杜律师事务所
创作年代:2019
出处/来源:金杜律师事务所
学科分类:知识产权法学
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Under normal circumstances, Original Equipment Manufacturer(OEM) refers to the situation where a Chinese manufacturer enters into an entrustment contract with an overseas company that owns the trademark(s), sometimes in China but in most cases, in other jurisdictions. The Chinese manufacturers are required to produce or process products according to the requirements of this overseas company, attach its trademark(s), and deliver all products to another country designated by this overseas company with no sales in China. Things become complicated when the overseas’ company’s trademarks registered outside China are registered by a third party which has no relation with the overseas company at all in China. According to the current statutory law in China, there is no clear provision regarding whether or not the aforesaid scenario constitutes trademark infringement by the OEM manufacturer or the overseas company against the owner of the registered trademarks in China. The question can be at least considered at two tiers: firstly, whether the use of a mark in OEM activities is the use of a trademark as defined under the PRC Trademark Law; and if yes, then secondly, whether said uses constitute trademark infringement. The Supreme People’s Court of the PRC (“SPC”) answered in the affirmative at both tiers in its latest judgement delivered in a trademark infringement case. This article summarizes the reasoning of SPC in a relative case.

关键词: Original Equipment Manufacturer; Trademark Infringement; Use of Trademark; China

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