🇨🇳 Due to its massive population and high consumer buying power, China has become one of the hotbeds for business start-ups. From January to November 2019, 7.12 million trademark applications were filed in China and its total effective registered trademarks have reached 24.78 million. Which
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😲 Do you know in the wake of the recent Corona Virus or Covid-19 outbreak, dozens of individuals and corporations around the world had tried to trademark the word?
📰 In 2005, McDonald’s tried to stop a Singaporean company, Future Enterprise Pte Ltd from using the prefix “Mc” or “Mac” on their products. Future Enterprise had applied to register “Mac Chocolate”, “Mac Tea” and “Mac Noodle” as trademark for their products. McDonald’s claimed
🔔 Do you know? In 2009, McDonald’s lost its exclusive claim to the trademark “Mc” on some of its food products within the EU after a dispute with Supermac’s, an Irish restaurant chain. McDonald’s had argued that Supermac’s is too close to their trademarked burger and will confuse the
🗃️ The Hague Convention Abolishing the Requirement of Legalisation for Foreign Public Documents or the Apostille Convention, is an international treaty drafted by the Hague Conference on Private International Law. It is a treaty signed between member states to speed up the certification process