Strictly speaking, my country’s criminal law only covers registered trademarks registered in accordance with my country’s Trademark Law. However, this does not exclude internationally registered trademarks. In other words, internationally registered trademarks are not automatically protected like trademarks registered in my country. Only an internationally registered trademark that has been extended to the territory of our country and is not rejected within the rejection period in our country is equivalent to a registered trademark in our country. Trademarks have strong regional attributes. As a sovereign country, the territorial extension of internationally registered trademarks is not unlimited.

First of all, Article 3bis of the Madrid Agreement stipulates that a contracting state may notify the International Bureau in writing that territorial extension requires a special application to extend to that country. Furthermore, when registering internationally, this must be specified when applying.

Secondly, Article 13 of my country’s “Madrid Implementation Measures for the International Registration of Trademarks” stipulates that the Trademark Office may notify the International Bureau to reject an application for territorial extension designating China ex officio. Article 14 stipulates that within three months from the first day of the month following the publication of the World Intellectual Property Organization's "International Trademark Announcement", any person may lodge an objection to the Trademark Office's application for territorial extension designating China in the announcement.

When there is an objection procedure, there is a review process, and when there is review, there is naturally a rejection. Therefore, only an internationally registered trademark whose territorial extension application has obtained registration permission and is effective can be protected by my country's criminal law. ?