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What are the effects of the decision of the Trademark Review and Adjudication Board?
The effectiveness of the Trademark Review and Adjudication Board's ruling:

1. Upon the expiration of the statutory time limit, if the parties concerned do not bring a suit in a people's court on the reexamination decision of the Trademark Review and Adjudication Board, the ruling of maintaining the registered trademark or declaring the registered trademark invalid, the ruling will take effect;

2. The judgments, rulings and conciliation statements of trademark infringement cases made and executed by the people's court before the invalidation are not retroactive;

3. Other influences.

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Article 46 of the Trademark Law

If, at the expiration of the statutory time limit, the parties concerned do not apply for reexamination of the Trademark Office's decision to declare a registered trademark invalid, or do not bring a suit in a people's court against the reexamination decision of the Trademark Review and Adjudication Board, the decision of the Trademark Office or the reexamination decision or ruling of the Trademark Review and Adjudication Board will take effect.

Article 47

A registered trademark that has been declared invalid in accordance with the provisions of Articles 44 and 45 of this Law shall be announced by the Trademark Office, and the exclusive right to use the registered trademark shall be regarded as nonexistent from the beginning.

The decision or ruling declaring a registered trademark invalid has no retrospective effect on the judgment or ruling of trademark infringement cases made and executed by the people's court before the invalidation, the conciliation statement, the decision on handling trademark infringement cases made and executed by the administrative department for industry and commerce, and the trademark transfer or use license contract that has been performed. However, if losses are caused to others due to the malice of the trademark registrant, compensation shall be made.