On December 27, 2025, China’s National People’s Congress (NPC) released a draft of the Amended Trademark Law for Comment.

The draft amendment, which contains 84 articles, focuses on tightening oversight over trademark agencies and practitioners, further clarifying standards for identifying malicious registrations and specifying corresponding penalties. The draft now allow “dynamic symbols” to be registered as trademarks, but color combinations, sounds, and dynamic effects that arise solely from the nature of the goods themselves, are necessary for achieving a technical effect, or give the goods substantial value are not permitted. Trademark applications that are not intended for use and clearly exceed the needs of normal production and operation will not be registered.

Comments are due February 9, 2026.

                                                                                                          Source. www.npc.gov.cn