1. Can trademark ownership belong to an individual?
1. If it is an individual Trademark, then trademark ownership can be owned by an individual. The ownership of personal trademarks belongs to individuals and has no relationship with the company. Personal trademarks can be injected into the company as intangible assets, and the owner can receive dividends. The ownership of a company's trademark belongs to the company, and all income based on this trademark belongs to the company.
2. Legal basis: "Trademark Law of the People's Republic of China"
Article 4, Natural persons, legal persons or other organizations that need to obtain exclusive rights to trademarks for the goods they produce, manufacture, process, select or distribute shall apply to the Trademark Office for commodity trademark registration.
Article 8, any visible mark, including text, that can distinguish the goods of a natural person, legal person or other organization from the goods of others , graphics, letters, numbers, three-dimensional logos and color combinations, as well as combinations of the above elements, can be applied for registration as trademarks.
2. Whether trademark ownership can be transferred
1. Trademark ownership can be transferred. First, trademark rights have a time limit. Therefore, before entering into a trademark rights transfer contract or a trademark rights license contract, you should first examine whether the trademark exclusive rights that are the subject of the contract are still within its validity period, how long the validity period is, and whether Completed the registration renewal procedures, etc. This is to prevent certain units, individual industrial and commercial households, individual partnerships, etc. from deceiving the other party by transferring the trademark that is no longer protected by law, that is, the trademark without the exclusive right to use the trademark to others or allowing others to use it.
2.Second, the transfer of trademark rights must be carried out in accordance with the methods and procedures prescribed by law, and no transfer is allowed.
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