National Phase of PCT: under Chapter I: 30 months; under Chapter II: 30 months.
Validity: issued after a formal and full examination - 20 years from the filing date.
Annuities: after granting, the first annuity for the current year in which the patent was granted must be paid.
Opposition: not provided for.
Kinds of protection: verbal, pictorial and other designations or their combinations, and sounds. Service marks are registrable.
Classification: International.
Obligation to use the registered mark: compulsory. Non use during any three-year period after the registration date may lead to cancellation.
Duration – renewals: 10-year periods from the registration date or last renewal date.
Opposition: any person may, within three months from the date of the publication (for international marks [Madrid]: starting on the first day of the month following the publication in "Les Marques Internationales"), file an opposition against the registration of the trademark. If no opposition is filed, or if it is decided that the opposition is not justified, registration is approved, a trademark certificate issued and the registered trademark published.
Duration - renewals: after formal examination: 10 years from the filing date. Opposition: not provided for.
Duration – renewals: one year, renewable.
Uniform dispute resolution procedure: none but an administrative procedure other than UDRP is available before CNNIC.
Area: 9,600,000 sq. km.
Population: 1,330,000,000 inhabitants.
Capital: Beijing, with over 13,000,000 inhabitants.
Language: Mandarin.
Currency: Renminbi (Yuan).
With the introduction of a socialist market economy, China's foreign trade is run by import and export corporations, enterprises and manufacturers under various forms of ownership under the guidance of the Ministry of Commerce of the People's Republic of China, and the competent authorities of the various provinces, autonomous regions and municipalities.
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