In 2019, the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) published the Requirement of U.S. Licensed Attorney for Foreign Trademark Applicants and Registrants (the “Requirement”), which completely changed the “game rules”
In “Your Trademark Journey Could Still Go Very Wrong, Even with an Agent (Part I and Part II)!”, we discussed how a substandard trademark agent could haunt your business.
As we all knew that the protection for trademarks is regional, that means if you want to get the protection, you should register your trademark in each place. As for the case mentioned above, the client successfully registered the trademarks in Macau Special Administrative Region (herein after named as ‘Macau SAR’).
There are four jurisdictions in China, Mainland China, Hong Kong SAR, Macao SAR and Taiwan, which are subject to different legal systems, including trademark law. Therefore, to obtain trademark protection in these four jurisdictions, it is necessary to apply for trademark registration separately.
