(By You Yunting) Abstract: The Chinese Trademark Office (the “CTMO”) strengthens the protection to the Internet products and services in adding the service items, including cloud computing, tablet computer, electronic reader, social-networking site and online bank, into the Chinese Goods and Services Classification. Protection category of Apps that applied to mobile network is, however, still not clear.

Trademark registration in China shall apply to the Nice Agreement Concerning the International Classification of Goods and Services for the Purposes of the Registration of Marks (the “Nice Classification”). Every year the CTMO will make a new amendment to the Chinese Goods and Services Classification and in 2014 the CTMO revised the tenth edition of the Chinese Goods and Services Classification.