What you need to know when transferring trademarks in China
1. Conditions for the Transferor To carry out the transfer of a trademark, the transferor must be the owner of the trademark as recorded on the Trademark Registration Certificate or the applicant of the pending trademark application (in the case of transferring an application). The name of the trademark owner on the certificate must match the name of the transferor in the transfer application. A common issue arises when the transferor has changed its name but has not completed the procedure to update the owner’s information on the Trademark Registration Certificate, resulting in the transfer application being rejected. In such cases, the transferor must update the new name on the Trademark Registration Certificate before proceeding with the trademark transfer. 2. Conditions for the Transferee The transferee must meet the condition of being the owner of the trademark as stipulated by Chinese trademark law. 3. Conditions for transferred trademarks The tradem...