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Necessary conditions for trademark registration
(1) trademark is a significant sign. Both are different from the narrative, the nature of the public to know the common signs, goods or services different from the others signs, so as to facilitate the identification of consumers.
(2) with exclusive trademark. Registered trademark owner has the exclusive right to use its trademarks, exclusive rights, unregistered trademark owner permission, others are not allowed to use. Otherwise, it is said to constitute a violation of all registered trademarks.
(3) the value of a trademark. Trademarks represent the trademark owner or operator of the production of goods and the quality of services enterprises reputation, image, the trademark owner of the trademark through creativity, design, application for registration, advertising and the use of the trademark has value, but also increase the added value of the commodity .
Particularly want to emphasize that the trade mark significant features (also known as significant), the trademark easy distinction of inducing other trademarks goods and services can be identifiable and unique, consumers can be differentiated by virtue of the trademark characteristics of goods or the origin of services, features, and information.
Under normal circumstances, and do not have significant trademark registration is not allowed, the following situations is not considered a significant characteristics:
(1) common to the industry trade names, logos, graphic trademarks;
(2) associated with the goods of text, graphics for trade marks;
(3) that the quality of goods, mainly raw materials, function, use, and other characteristics of the text or graphics for trademark;
(4) above the county level domain names as trademarks Administrative Region (Note: collective marks, certification marks there are exceptions);
(5) mark text, graphics or too complicated to use many graphic description;
(6) in a very simple geometric shapes to ordinary font write the following two letters or numbers (such as a straight line, a curve, a standardized triangle, or circle, etc.) by a trademark of all or part of the main;
(7) the use of national unity or for the promulgation of industry as a trademark symbol, also do not think it is a significant one.
Significant mark is not absolute, trademarks, although attention should be paid to the design was significant, with a single trade mark is notable features depends to a large extent with the use of the situation.
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