Now it should be that enterprises attach great importance to trademark intellectual property rights and register trademarks one after another. There will certainly be more and more cases of registered trademarks. In addition to maliciously registering trademarks, trademark users lack awareness of trademark protection, which will definitely lead to many registered trademarks.

What are the consequences of using unregistered trademarks?

1, the exclusive right to use a trademark is not protected by law.

Whether self-employed or enterprises, if the trademark used is not registered, users will not enjoy the exclusive right to use the trademark. If you work hard for several years and then become famous, you can use this trademark because you are not registered. Because you are not registered, you are not protected by law.

2, it will cause infringement.

The use of unregistered trademarks is likely to lead to trademark infringement. Even if you are using this trademark first, but you didn't register this trademark, someone else registered this trademark. If the registration is successful, then continuing to use this trademark is infringement. As long as it is infringement, it will be punished and compensate for economic losses.

3. Registered trademarks cannot form industrial property rights.

Due to the provisions of China's trademark law, the exclusive right to use registered trademarks is protected by law, while unregistered trademarks are not protected by law, and their users do not enjoy the exclusive right to use trademarks. Unregistered trademarks cannot form industrial property rights (trademark exclusive right and patent right). Even if you are the user of the trademark, the intangible assets generated by the trademark do not belong to you. Patents and trademarks are intangible assets.