China’s amended Trademark Law brings stronger protection

By Ai-Leen Lim, Joanna Lu | Posted on July 1, 2026

By the end of 2025, the number of valid registered trademarks in mainland China (excluding Hong Kong, Macao, and Taiwan) had reached 49.877 million. Meanwhile, malicious trademark registration activities remained high, with over 200,000 enforcement actions against bad-faith trademark filings recorded nationwide in both the first halves of 2023 and 2024. The revision of the...