On July 16, the Beijing Intellectual Property Court will hold a public hearing on an administrative trademark dispute case involving Louis Vuitton (LV), with the defendant being the National Intellectual Property Administration of China (NIPA).
According to the announcement on the website of the Chinese court, the Beijing Intellectual Property Court is scheduled to publicly hear a trademark administrative dispute case on July 16, 2026. The plaintiff is Louis Vuitton Malletier, the defendant is the NIPA, and Huang Minyao is participating in the lawsuit as a third party. The specifics of the disputed trademarks and content are not yet disclosed in the announcement. Louis Vuitton Malletier is a company under LV.
It is reported that after individual Huang Minyao applied to register a trademark, LV raised objections/invalidation requests against the trademark to the NIPA. The NIPA issued a ruling that did not support LV’s claims. Disagreeing with the ruling, LV filed a lawsuit with the Beijing Intellectual Property Court.
By searching Tianyancha, “Beijing Daily” found that Huang Minyao has applied to register multiple trademarks, including one resembling a four-leaf clover.
Business data shows that Huang Minyao is a clothing operator in Shantou, Guangdong, with two dissolved garment manufacturing companies under his name.
On July 14, the topic “LV sues the National Intellectual Property Administration” attracted widespread attention online and trended on Weibo.
Hong Kong’s “Wen Wei Po” senior journalist Kailei posted on social media that the case is a routine trademark administrative litigation. “LV, disagreeing with the administrative ruling, filed a lawsuit against the NIPA according to the Trademark Law, with Huang Minyao appearing as a third party. The core dispute in court is not a civil dispute between LV and Huang Minyao but rather the legality of the administrative ruling made by the NIPA.”
Louis Vuitton Malletier previously won a lawsuit for trademark infringement against Mo Li Nai Bai (Jasmine Milk White).
On June 29, the Suzhou Intermediate People’s Court issued a first-instance judgment in the case of LV suing Mo Li Nai Bai’s Wu Zhong Economic Development Zone Dong Xia Beverage Shop for trademark infringement, ruling that the four-leaf flower graphic used by Mo Li Nai Bai violated the exclusive rights of 7 registered trademark graphics of Louis Vuitton. The court ordered the main company of Mo Li Nai Bai to compensate LV for economic losses of 10 million yuan, bear reasonable rights protection expenses of 300,000 yuan, totaling 10.3 million yuan, and immediately cease the use of infringing marks, and publicly eliminate the impact. The other defendant, Dong Xia Beverage Shop, is jointly liable for compensation within the range of 100,000 yuan.
Public data shows that in the past five years, LV has initiated 1,691 trademark protection lawsuits in China, with an additional 56 cases in the first half of 2026.