Our expertise, written down in public: Q&A, topics, tools and insights—common questions are answered here first; bring the ones you're unsure about to a lawyer.
Registration, renewal, opposition, cross-border protection—a question bank built from real inquiries.
Q&A HUBChoosing between invention, utility model and design; the PCT route; the timing of fees.
Q&A HUBRegistration, licensing and evidence for enforcement—software, content and creative works.
Article numbering is reorganized throughout (the examination time limit, for example, moves from Article 28 to Article 32), and the opposition period is shortened from 3 months to 2 months—watch the gazette more closely and file earlier. Article-by-article commentary plus an action checklist, updated continuously.
Type a product or service and get suggested classes and standard wording in seconds—free to use, so you can settle your classes before you file.
The complete roadmap from search and class strategy to filing and certificate—under first to file, your filing date is your moat.
Guide 02CNIPA official fees line by line (original CNY amounts): registration, renewal, opposition and other proceedings, checkable against the official schedule.
Guide 03Within a class, the “similar groups” define the scope of similarity—without understanding sub-classes, a search result will mislead you.
Guide 04Savings versus flexibility: give us your list of target markets and we will show you which route costs less.
Guide 05A quick-reference table of the 45 Nice classes in Chinese—work out which classes your business is in before you talk about filing.
Guide 06The answer is no—but the question deserves its own page, because almost everything written about it in English is answering a different question.
