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Trademark Squat Response Checklist (China)
A practical orientation checklist for foreign brand teams who just found a conflicting China trademark filing or registration — deadline triage, evidence pack, remedy choice, and counsel handoff.
- Publication vs registration status check
- 3-month opposition window calculator prompts
- Evidence inventory (relationship, use, fame, bad faith)
- Fight / buy-back / rebrand decision prompts
- Links to full guides and verified trademark counsel
Checklist contents (use now)
- Status: Application number · publication date · registration number · classes · owner name.
- Clock: If published and unregistered — days left in 3-month opposition window (Art. 33).
- Ownership map: Your China filings · overseas registrations · Chinese-character marks.
- Relationship: Any agent, distributor, OEM, employee, or failed JV with the filer?
- Evidence folder: Contracts, invoices, ads, exhibitions, platform data, watch report PDF.
- Remedy shortlist: Opposition · invalidation · non-use cancel · buy-back · rebrand.
- Commercial cost: Launch delay cost vs legal budget vs likely purchase price.
- Counsel brief: One-page facts + desired outcome + deadline date for the agent.
Deep guides:
Opposition step-by-step · Opposition vs invalidation · Buy-back · Squatting pillar
Get counsel on your facts
This checklist is orientation material. For a live deadline, contact verified trademark lawyers.
General information only — not legal advice. For other free checklists see Free China legal checklists.