Sales invoices, contracts and other commercial documents are an important part of commodity trading activities. The use of the trademark in these commercial documents shall be regarded as the "use" of the trademark. Whether verbal use in business activities is regarded as "use" needs to be comprehensively determined in conjunction with other usage situations.
When the registrant uses the registered trademark What issues should be paid attention to
registrants When using registered trademarks, you should pay attention to the following issues:
First of all, the exclusive right to register a trademark is limited to the approved registered trademark, that is, the trademark logo used should be consistent with the approved registered trademark logo. It can only be enlarged or reduced in proportion, and the text, graphics and color of the trademark cannot be changed on its own.
Because Chinese characters and letters have different fonts, and the appearance of various fonts for the same character can sometimes be very different, such as simplified and traditional Chinese characters, uppercase and lowercase English letters, etc., so what fonts are required to be registered? Just use whatever font you want. Sometimes the registrant changes the font of the trademark for aesthetic reasons or other reasons, such as changing it from bold to italic. This change is subtle.changes are still allowed in practice.
The same is true for the graphics in the trademark, with subtle changes For example, adding a box, circle or certain lines to the registered trademark is allowed. However, if the text or graphics are significantly changed to form a different appearance, it may constitute changing the registered trademark on your own or even counterfeiting the registered trademark. What's more serious is that if the changed appearance is similar to someone else's registered trademark, it may also constitute a trademark violation. At the same time, if the trademark used is different from the approved and registered trademark, it may also have an adverse impact on the protection of the trademark, because the protection of exclusive rights for registered trademarks is based on the approved and registered trademark, not the actual trademark used.
Secondly, the registered trademark must be used in the country where it is approved for use. on goods and services. Applications for trademark registration must be submitted separately according to different categories according to the provisions of the "Classification Table of Similar Goods and Services". After approval, the goods or services approved for use shall prevail. If a registered trademark needs to be used on other goods or services of different categories, a separate registration application must be submitted. If the goods or services actually used exceed the scope of goods or services approved for use, or are used across categories, no registration mark should be added, otherwise it will be considered an act of passing off a registered trademark. If it is the same as or similar to someone else’s registered trademark on similar goods or services, you will also bear legal liability for trademark infringement.
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