On May 8, the China National Intellectual Property Administration (CNIPA) issued the Work Plan for Systematically Addressing Malicious Trademark Registrations to Promote High-quality Development (2023-2025) (the "Plan"). 

The Plan outlines several objectives to be achieved by 2025, these include making significant strides in addressing malicious trademark registrations, further improving the management system as well as the policies and regulations on addressing malicious trademark registrations, and defining clearly the rights and responsibilities of the competent authorities, to ensure an efficient management mechanism and an a multi-dimensional integrated system with clear laws to follow and participation from all parties. To this end, the Plan sets out specific tasks such as enhancing the legal system for addressing malicious trademark registrations, improving the working mechanism for combating malicious trademark registrations in accordance with the law, cracking down on malicious trademark registrations across all areas. In particular, the Plan emphasizes the need to establish a credit commitment system for trademark authorization and confirmation procedures, and this system will clearly define the scope of application and credit commitments. For parties who seriously violate their commitments and obtain trademark registrations through deception or other means, their registered trademarks will be declared invalid, and their acts will be listed as dishonest acts according to law.

(Source: China National Intellectual Property Administration)