Louis Vuitton Malletier filed the administrative lawsuit against the China National Intellectual Property Administration (CNIPA), with a Chinese individual – Huang Minyao – joined as a third party, according to a notice published by the Beijing Intellectual Property Court in May.
It is not immediately clear based on the notice what trademark dispute the lawsuit involves.
The French fashion house is no stranger to litigation in China: 58 judgments and court summonses involving the company – most of them trademark disputes – have been published this year on the country’s official court announcement platform.
Another 11 trademark infringement cases involving the company are scheduled for hearings between mid-July and the end of August, according to court notices compiled by Qichacha, a Chinese corporate database.
This is also not the first time Louis Vuitton has sued China’s trademark regulator: the Beijing court heard a similar case in March, where the CNIPA was the defendant alongside a third-party individual in an administrative lawsuit brought by Louis Vuitton Malletier, according to a court notice recorded by Qichacha.
