You can look this up yourself, for free, in about ten minutes — in the same public registry everyone else uses. This page shows you how. No signup, nothing to buy.
China's trademark office (CNIPA) grants marks on a first-to-file basis. Whoever files first holds the mark — even if they have never used the brand, and even if they never sell anything.
Filing fees are low, and no Chinese address or business entity is required to file. Filings can be made through agents from anywhere. This is sometimes called “trademark squatting.” This page mostly avoids that word, because whether any specific filing was made in bad faith is a legal determination — not something a website can make. Everything below is registry fact.
We pulled the Chinese records for the string LULULEMON from TMview on 2026-09-16. All of it is public and verifiable by application number:
Nothing here says those filings are illegal or in bad faith. Some may be ordinary businesses with their own reasons. What the example does show: the same brand string can sit in the registry under multiple unrelated owners at the same time, in different classes. Whether any of it matters to you depends on what you sell and where you are headed — a question for a qualified professional, not a website.
Go to tmdn.org → TMview. Free, English, no login. Search your brand string and filter the office to China (CN). Then read three things per result: owner name, classes, status.
If your brand goes through the Madrid System, check which registrations designate China, and where they stand.
Current status is best confirmed at the source. Chinese UI, occasional captcha. One thing people miss: search the Chinese-character version of your brand, too. Filings often use Chinese characters rather than the Latin string, and a Latin-only search misses them entirely.
| What you see | Why it may or may not matter |
|---|---|
| Same string, unrelated owner, unrelated class | May not affect you at all. Marks are granted per class. |
| Same string, unrelated owner, your class | The one worth looking at with a professional. |
| Same string, brand's own company | Normal — the brand's own portfolio. |
| Chinese characters, not the Latin string | Easy to miss; search both forms. |
If you would rather not read the registry yourself: send the brand name and we will run the public-registry query and reply with one line — registered in China or not, and whether the matching filings are held by the brand's own company or by unrelated third parties.
No email required, no signup, nothing to buy. We just run a public query and tell you what it says.
We compile public registry facts. We do not give legal advice, do not file or oppose anything on anyone's behalf, and do not refer lawyers or agents. Whether any filing is in bad faith is a legal determination we cannot and will not make. Registry snapshots can be outdated — verify current status on official sources.