Recently, the Higher People's Court of Beijing Municipality rendered a judgment in Case (2024) Jing Xing Zhong No. 1026, an administrative dispute over trademark invalidation request, involving Appellant A Group Co., Ltd., Appellee National Intellectual Property Administration, and Original Third Party Farasis Energy (Ganzhou) Co., Ltd. The Court dismissed the appeal filed by A Group Co., Ltd. and affirmed the first-instance judgment (2022) Jing 73 Xing Chu No. 12670 made by the Beijing Intellectual Property Court as well as the Trademark Review and Adjudication Decision No. [2022] 124192 issued by the National Intellectual Property Administration. Pursuant to the aforesaid Judgment No. 1026, the "Funeng Battery" trademark No. 28321986, filed for registration by A Group Co., Ltd. on December 26, 2017, has been finally declared invalid.
Beijing Caihe Law Firm was entrusted by Farasis Energy (Ganzhou) Co., Ltd. to act as its agent in the above trademark invalidation request case and the first-instance and second-instance proceedings of the trademark administrative litigation.