![]() You can establish rights* in a mark based on legitimate use of this mark but registering a mark provides several advantages:īecause the office checked that the registration request was valid there is a legal presumption of the registrant's ownership of the mark and of the registrant's exclusive right to use the mark ![]() In that respect a trademark is closer to a patent than to copyright. Whereas the copyright is implicit (established by the very existence of the work) patents require filing a patent application in a patent office that checks whether this application conforms to some rules and is useful, novel and not obvious in an examination process. Trademarks are distinctive words, phrases, logos, symbols, slogans or other things that identify the source of a good or service and make it distinctive. ![]() A trademark is any sign that can distinguish the goods and services of one trader from those of another.
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