Organisation: Baidu

Baidu China defeats mass filer Gleissner in Singapore trademark clash

In this guest analysis, lawyers at Gateway Law Corporation discuss how Baidu China successfully invalidated a number of Michael Gleissner’s registrations in Singapore.

20 February 2023

Brand market crash: industry giants suffer major declines as Amazon ranked world’s most valuable brand

Amazon, Apple, Facebook and Alibaba.com are among some of the biggest names to have seen their brand value decline this year, Brand Finance’s annual Global 500 report reveals.

18 January 2023

10 biggest corporate trademark portfolios revealed

We reveal the 10 companies with the biggest active trademark portfolios in China, Europe and the United States

07 July 2022

Trademark troll loses registration after appropriating well-known mark

This is the first decision applying the new bad-faith ground for trademark expungement, added to the Trademarks Act in 2019.

21 June 2022

Gleissner: a timeline of the filings and legal challenges

Featured in WTR investigation exclusives

December 2021: A full timeline on the activities of millionaire Michael Gleissner, from revealing his thousands of trademark applications to the legal challenges that followed.

09 December 2021

L’Oréal boasts largest European and US active trademark portfolios, as key prosecution trends emerge

For our new report – published today – we teamed up with CompuMark to calculate which companies own the largest trademark portfolios in China, Europe and the United States.

07 July 2021

Top 50 trademark applicants: China 2020

Featured in Brand trademark tracker

Tencent owns the largest number of active Chinese trademarks with a portfolio of 37,205 applications. This is nearly 15,000 more than second-place Beijing Jingdong Triple Bai Lu Pick Up of E-commerce Limited.

07 July 2021

The China Trademark 50

Featured in Special Report 2021 Q2: Inside in-house operations - how to build world-class trademark functions and portfolios

Tencent owns the largest number of active Chinese trademarks with a portfolio of 37,205 applications. This is nearly 15,000 more than second-place Beijing Jingdong Triple Bai Lu Pick Up of E-commerce Limited.

07 July 2021

WTR Brand Elite analysis: March 2021

Featured in Stock market performance

The WTR Brand Elite project tracks how a defined set of brand-focused companies with industry-leading trademark teams perform against stock market indices.

26 April 2021

Throwing shade at shadow companies - amendments to the Provisions on Administration of Enterprise Name Regulations

Compelling a shadow company to change its trade name used to be a costly and time-consuming exercise. However, several administrative measures have recently been introduced, marking a major improvement in the fight against shadow companies in China.

12 April 2021

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