Agricultural products are items produced in agriculture, such as sorghum, rice, peanuts, corn, wheat and local specialties of various regions. Of course, they do not include various processed products. How to choose the category of agricultural product trademarks?
By searching in the Bajie Intellectual Property Trademark Encyclopedia, we can know that the category of agricultural product trademarks belongs to Category 31-3102-Unprocessed grains and agricultural products (excluding vegetables and seeds)-Unprocessed Cereals 3102, Raw Flaxseed 3102, Fresh Beans 3102. Agricultural products are very important to people's daily life and production.
What kind of information do you need to know about Jinhua trademark revocation to avoid this happening? According to Paragraph 2 of Article 49 of the Trademark Law: “If a registered trademark is not used for three consecutive years without justifiable reasons, any unit or individual may apply to the Trademark Office to cancel the registered trademark.” The purpose is to eliminate idleness. Trademark to avoid wasting public resources.
In order to protect the trademark, companies sometimes register many defensive trademarks for their main trademark in a period of time, in order to prevent the trademark from being registered. How should we prevent the company’s trademark from being withdrawn at this time? You can provide legitimate reasons for not using the trademark, or provide evidence of use of the trademark.
According to Article 67 of the "Regulations for the Implementation of the Trademark Law": "The following circumstances are legitimate reasons stipulated in Article 49 of the Trademark Law: (1) Force majeure; (2) Government policy restrictions; (3) Bankruptcy and liquidation; (4) Other legitimate reasons that cannot be attributed to the trademark registrant. "
Advertising use to defend against the daily use of trademarks: advertising in newspapers, publications, television, Publicity and promotion on traditional advertising media such as radio, light boxes, street signs, and large outdoor facilities; publicity and promotion on the Internet platform.
When advertising a trademark, advertising materials that contain the complete trademark and can be linked to specific products should be retained in a timely manner, such as web links, videos, magazines, photos, signed agreements, invoices, etc. This kind of advertising has low cost, low production cost and simple procedures. It is the simplest way to use defensive trademarks.
Licensing the daily use of defense trademarks to others: Defense trademarks can be licensed to others. In order to ensure its legal effect, a "trademark use license record" should be completed and a "trademark use license contract" should be retained. At the same time, the licensee is required to provide evidence of use and keep it.
The daily use of defensive trademarks and the registration and copyright use of graphic trademarks: If the defensive trademark is a graphic, copyright registration can be carried out. After the copyright of the graphic is registered, even if it has not been put into use, there is no need to worry about the "withdrawal of three" issues. , and other people’s subsequent applications for the same trademark will infringe on the prior copyright.
If there is no legitimate reason and no evidence of use when a defensive trademark is filed for withdrawal, you can register the trademark in a circular manner and actively defend it. In short, you can put forward legitimate reasons to prevent the trademark from being used. Withdraw three.