How to protect well-known trademarks
"Interim Provisions on the Recognition and Management of Well-known Trademarks" extends the protection of well-known trademarks Mainly reflected in three aspects:
1. Prohibition Improper registration
will be identical or similar to other people’s well-known trademarks If a trademark is applied for registration on non-similar goods and may harm the rights and interests of the well-known trademark registrant, the Trademark Office may reject the registration application. If a well-known trademark has been registered, the registrant may request the Trademark Review and Adjudication Board to cancel it.
2. Improper use is prohibited
Use a trademark that is the same or similar to someone else’s well-known trademark in non-similar If it is on the goods and it will imply that the goods have some relationship with the well-known trademark registrant, which may damage the rights and interests of the well-known trademark registrant, the well-known trademark registrant may request the industrial and commercial administrative agency to stop it.
3. Prohibited Used as a trade name
from the date of recognition of the well-known trademark , if others use words that are identical or similar to the well-known trademark as part of the company name, and may cause misunderstanding by the public, the industrial and commercial administration authorities will not register it; if it has been registered, the registrant of the well-known trademark may request for cancellation. In my country's revised Trademark Law, the protection of well-known trademarks has been extended to non-similar goods or services, and the expanded protection of well-known trademarks has been formally established in legislative form.
Of course, there are also trademark protection technologies, for example, Dan De Image's trademark security/anti-infringement technology can be used to read the security information in the trademark by adding security information to the trademark and taking a picture of the trademark with a mobile phone. It can verify the authenticity of the trademark while tracking the dynamics of infringing and similar trademarks. It is a kind of trademark Supervision methods to prevent infringement.
Well-known trademarks generally refer to those registered under the Paris Convention For some of the trademarks that are subject to relevant protection, our country is also one of the member countries of the Paris Convention, so it is also necessary to protect these related well-known trademark enterprises. For the relevant protection of these well-known trademarks, our country has issued the "Interim Provisions for the Recognition and Management of Well-known Trademarks". Regulations", in order to provide appropriate protection to relevant enterprises from infringement of their rights.
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