Editing Intellectual property in China (section)

===Trademark law===
{{Main|Trademark law of China}}

In 1950, China issued ''Procedures for Dealing with Trademarks Registered at the Trademark Office of the Former Kuomintang Government'' which eliminated all trademarks registered under the Nationalist government.<ref name=":5" />{{Rp|page=59}} ''Provisional Regulations on Trademark Registration'', issued in the same year, allowed registration of foreign trademarks.<ref name=":5" />{{Rp|page=59}} Few holders used the procedures.<ref name=":5" />{{Rp|page=59}}

In conformity with the TRIPS Agreement, China amended the ''Trademark Law'' in 2000.<ref name=":4" />{{Rp|page=20}}

China uses a first-to-file trademark registration system.<ref name=":Zhang" />{{Rp|page=230}} Trademark registrants do not need to demonstrate their prior use of a trademark.<ref name=":Zhang" />{{Rp|page=230}}