Article by Sino-Link Consulting
The third draft amendment of Trademark Law has been being discussed since 2005, after publishing the first version for the third draft amendment of Trademark Law with 159 articles in it in 2006; the state trademark bureau provided another version with 150 articles in August of 2007. And now, the second version is under discussion over the whole country.
Combining the phylogeny and the reality of the Trademark Law in China, we can know that, this law is becoming more and more comprehensive in respect of the subject of the registration, the scope of the constitution of the trademark and so on; In addition, what we can also see is that the power of administrative enforcement of the Administration Bureau for Industry and Commerce is strengthened step by step. From the amended version (2007), we can summarize three main respects being discussed: 1. To change a lot or change a little; 2. The goal of legislation for the trademark law; 3. The concrete system of the law.