1. Do natural persons and legal persons also have trademark rights?
1. Natural persons It has the same trademark rights as a legal person. According to Article 5 of the Trademark Law of the People's Republic of China, natural persons and legal persons can also apply to the Trademark Office to register a trademark and enjoy and exercise the exclusive right to use a trademark. Legal persons and natural persons can own trademark rights as long as they are legally registered.
2. Legal basis: Article 5 of the "Trademark Law of the People's Republic of China" Two or more natural persons , legal persons or other organizations can jointly apply to the Trademark Office to register the same trademark, and jointly enjoy and exercise the exclusive right to the trademark. Article 8 Any mark that can distinguish the goods of a natural person, legal person or other organization from the goods of others, including words, graphics, letters, numbers, three-dimensional marks, color combinations and sounds, etc., as well as combinations of the above elements, can be used as a mark. Trademark application for registration.
2. What does natural person mean?
A natural person is a person in the biological sense, a person who obtains civil subject qualifications based on birth. Its extension includes domestic citizens, foreign citizens and stateless persons. Natural persons and legal persons are both civil subjects. The subject qualifications of natural persons are extensive, that is, anyone who wants to participate in civil legal relations must be subject to the adjustment of civil legal relations regardless of whether they are willing or not. Natural persons also have equality in subject qualifications. Equality in civil law is equality of opportunity, not substantive equality. All people have equal civil rights and equal civil obligations. The "General Principles of the Civil Law of the People's Republic of China" stipulates that natural persons over the age of 18 are considered adults, and adults are persons with full capacity for civil conduct and can independently perform civil legal acts. Minors over the age of 16 who rely on their own labor income as their main source of living are deemed to be persons with full capacity for civil conduct.
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