Shanghai Century Star Import & Export Corporation is publicly condemning the international fashion giant Pierre Cardin for violating business ethics, and states it will file a lawsuit against the fashion icon if it does not get a proper response to its demands.

Guangzhou-based Quna.com has announced that it has briefed a lawyer to file a trademark opposition application against Qunar.com, a travel site operated by a Beijing Internet company.

Sichuan Baijia Food Company, one of the largest instant noodle manufacturers in China, has filed a lawsuit against OKAI Import Export GmbH with the Munich District Court in Germany, asking the court to cancel OKAI's trademark application of Baijia trademark and return the trademark to Baijia Food.

The ThinkTank Research Center for Health Development, an anti-tobacco NGO in China, says it will submit a petition to the Trademark Assessment Commission of the State Administration for Industry and Commerce, asking it to discontinue the use of Zhongnanhai as a brand name for cigarettes.

After its application to register a trademark was turned down by China's State Administration for Industry and Commerce, Daimler-Benz has brought a case against SAIC to the Beijing No. 1 Lower People's Court.

According to reports in local media, more than ten instant bean vermicelli products from Baijia have been removed from the shelves of major supermarkets in Shijiazhuang, due to the similarity of its trademark with that of Baixiang, another Chinese instant food maker.

According to Hou Xiaoqiang, CEO of Shanda Literature, the company plans to start a lawsuit against Google to push the global search engine towards better transparency and a higher sense of corporate social responsibility.