The Decision on Amending Eight Laws Including the Construction Law of the People’s Republic of China (the “Decision”) has been deliberated and adopted as of April 23, 2019.

The Decision made changes to eight laws including the Construction Law of the People’s Republic of China, the Trademark Law of the People’s Republic of China, and the Anti-Unfair Competition law of the People’s Republic of China, etc. The Decision revised Article 8 of the Construction Law to: “requirements needed to apply for a construction permit include…”; it also revised Article 4 (1) of the Trademark law to “When natural persons, legal persons or organizations need to acquire the exclusive right to use its trademark, they must apply to register the trademark with the Trademark Office. Malicious registration applications with no intent of use should be rejected”, and revised Article 19 (3) to “When trademark agencies know or should know the trademark applied for registration by their client falls under the circumstances specified in Article 4, Article 15 or Article 32 of this Law, they should not accept the client’s engagement.”

The amendments made to the Trademark Law of the People’s Republic of China will take effect on November 1st, 2019; all other amendments have taken effect immediately from the date of issuance.

Source: people.cn