Jointly boycott the "List of Prohibited Practices in Trademark Agency"

2025-03-24

List of Prohibited Practices in Trademark Agency
1、 Despite knowing or should have known that the trademark has adverse effects or belongs to malicious trademark registration applications such as "registering" or "hoarding", one still accepts the commission to handle trademark business.
2、 Failure to diligently verify the authenticity, accuracy, and completeness of the agency matters and materials, failure to timely report progress and deliver legal documents and materials to the client without justifiable reasons, or other failure to fulfill diligent and responsible obligations, seriously damages the legitimate rights and interests of the client.
3、 Recruiting business through fraudulent defamation, false advertising, misleading information, commercial bribery, malicious low prices, and other means, as well as violating commitment cases such as "package authorization".
4、 Illegally obtaining, utilizing, and fabricating data through the internet, deceiving and misleading clients, and maliciously excluding competitors.
5、 Express or imply special relationships with administrative agencies, judicial agencies, and their staff, or bribe or transfer benefits to personnel engaged in trademark registration, management, and review work, seeking illegitimate benefits.
6、 Engaging personnel who have previously worked in trademark and patent examination or management in violation of laws, regulations, and relevant national restrictions on employment.
7、 Trademark agency practitioners engage in trademark agency business in two or more trademark agencies at the same time, or accept commissions in their own names.
8、 Apply for registration or indirectly apply for registration of other trademarks outside of agency services.
9、 Falsifying, altering, or using forged or altered legal documents, seals, signatures, and creating or submitting false trademark application materials.
10、 Maliciously raising trademark objections, revoking trademarks, or declaring invalidity, which damages the legitimate rights and interests of the rights holder or third party.
11、 Making decisions that harm the interests of the principal without authorization or exceeding the authorized authority, and without confirmation from the principal.
12、 Using electronic intrusion or unauthorized plug-in to infiltrate official systems, affecting the normal operation of official systems, and interfering with trademark examination and service work.
13、 Disrupting the order of trademark examination and trial work through abuse of litigation procedures, malicious complaints, and other means.
14、 Accepting commissions from both parties with conflicting interests in the same case.
15、 Violating confidentiality obligations by disclosing the client's trade secrets and personal information.
16、 The trademark agency cancels, revokes, or suspends its business license, or fails to timely and properly handle unfinished trademark business.
17、 Refusing to cooperate with the supervision and inspection of the management department and the self-discipline management of industry organizations.
18、 Other prohibited behaviors stipulated by laws, regulations, departmental rules, and industry norms.
(Original title: Jointly Resist the List of Prohibited Practices in Trademark Agency and Promote the High Quality Development of the Trademark Agency Industry)
Source: Chinese Trademark Association website

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