Haitang Bay is located on the northeast coast of Sanya City, Hainan Province, 28 kilometers away from the center of Sanya, bordering Yalong Bay National Tourism Resort in the south, and is listed as the five famous bays in Sanya along with Yalong Bay, Dadong Bay, Sanya Bay and Yazhou Bay. In 2009, the trademark of Haitang Bay was registered, including more than 20 categories such as eating, wearing, living, traveling, playing and cultural publishing, which seriously affected the long-term economic development of Sanya.
▲ Haitang Bay
The Sanya Municipal Party Committee, the Municipal Government and the provincial industry and commerce attached great importance to it, promptly raised objections to the trademark and reported the situation to the Trademark Office, and then successively formulated relevant departments to quickly declare 55 "Haitang Bay" trademark registrations. On 2011June 15, the Trademark Review and Adjudication Board of the Trademark Office of the State Administration for Industry and Commerce issued a trademark objection ruling, ruling that the first batch of 10 "Haitang Bay" trademarks that have been registered and entered the preliminary examination stage will not be approved for registration. The cybersquatter refused to accept the ruling and filed an administrative lawsuit with the Beijing No.1 Intermediate People's Court. The Beijing No.1 Intermediate People's Court made a first-instance judgment and revoked the ruling of the Trademark Review and Adjudication Board of the State Administration for Industry and Commerce on the trademark dispute case of "Haitang Bay".
According to the situation of "obtaining registration by improper means" in the first paragraph of Article 41 of the Trademark Law, the final judgment was made on May 12, 2002, and the original judgment of Beijing No.1 Intermediate People's Court was revoked, and the trademark dispute ruling of "Haitang Bay" by the Trademark Review and Adjudication Board of the State Administration for Industry and Commerce was upheld.
After the judgment of the first instance, the Trademark Review and Adjudication Board of the State Administration for Industry and Commerce refused to accept the judgment of the first instance and appealed to the Beijing Higher People's Court, requesting that the original judgment be revoked and upheld. Sanya is endowed with unique tourism resources. Once the registration is successful, the consequences will be unimaginable. Therefore, Trademark Transfer Network hereby appeals to all enterprises and their legal representatives to attach great importance to intellectual property rights and actively safeguard their rights. Once you find that your exclusive right to use a trademark has been violated by others, you should actively collect evidence and take legal measures to protect your exclusive right to use a trademark. Neglect is tantamount to indulgence, which will eventually have a negative impact on the development of its own brand.
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