Last October, Alfred Dunhill, a British luxury brand, won a $1.4m (RMB 10 million) payout over trademark infringement by a Chinese menswear brand called Danhuoli, marking an important progression in IP protection in China. Dunhill filed and ordered the lawsuit in China where the Foshan Intermediate People’s Court in Guangdong Province found the Chinese menswear label guilty of trademark infringement and unfair competition practices. Danhuoli registered their name under a shadow company in Hong Kong called “Dunhill Group” and had originally registered the “Danhuoli” trademark in plain font. However, the infringing Danhuoli logo, which had been used for several years , was considered by the Court as very similar to Dunhill’s original thin, black, and elongated logo font.
Introduction With the continuous improvement of labor laws and regulations, open-ended labor contracts, as a form of contract that provides stronger protection for the rights and interests of employees, have attracted increasing attention. In particular, whether employees have the right to demand the signing of open-ended labor contracts after two consecutive fixed-term labor contracts has
I. Introduction: The Strategic Positioning of the Greater Bay Area A “Greater Bay Area” refers to a cluster of ports and urban clusters distributed around coastal ports. The derived “Greater Bay Area economy” has become an important highlight in the world economic landscape. The San Francisco Bay Area is renowned for Silicon Valley and has
Policy background Affected by multiple factors such as geopolitical conflicts and slow economic recovery, global cross-border investment continues to be sluggish. China’s economy is shifting from high-speed growth to high-quality development, which puts higher demands on the quality and structure of foreign investment. At the same time, efforts are made to solve the practical problems
