Exclusively licensed use has copyright status. The licensee of an exclusive license is an interested party as stipulated in Paragraph 1 of Article 60 of the Trademark Law. When the exclusive right to use a registered trademark is infringed upon, the licensee of the exclusive license contract may file a lawsuit with the People's Court.

Legal basis

Article 4 of the "Interpretation of the Supreme People's Court on Several Issues Concerning the Application of Law in the Trial of Civil Trademark Dispute Cases"

Article 60 of the Trademark Law The interested parties specified in this paragraph include the licensee of the registered trademark license contract, the legal successor of the registered trademark property rights, etc.

When the exclusive right to use a registered trademark is infringed, the licensee of the exclusive use license contract may file a lawsuit with the People's Court; the licensee of the exclusive use license contract may file a lawsuit together with the trademark registrant*** , you can also file a lawsuit on your own without the trademark registrant suing; the licensee of a general use license contract can file a lawsuit if expressly authorized by the trademark registrant