The applicant who does not belong to trademark registration is
the subject of trademark right, also called the trademark owner, refers to the natural person, legal person or other organization that enjoys the trademark right according to law, including the original subject and the successor subject of trademark right. According to the Trademark Law of China, a "natural person" cannot become the subject of trademark rights if he/she does not meet the following conditions: individual industrial and commercial households, individual partnerships, contractors, and other business households that have obtained business activities according to law. Article 2 of the Detailed Rules for the Implementation of the Trademark Law stipulates: "Applicants for trademark registration must be enterprises, institutions, social organizations, individual industrial and commercial households, individual partnerships and foreigners or foreign enterprises that meet the requirements of Article 9 of the Trademark Law." (1) Enterprise units refer to those enterprises with legal personality established in accordance with the Regulations on the Administration of Enterprise Legal Person Registration. (2) Institutions refer to those research institutions or schools with affiliated factories or workshops, which can engage in the production and distribution of commodities. State organs, ministries and other units are not included. (3) Individual industrial and commercial households and individual partnerships refer to individual industrial and commercial households and individual partnerships that have registered in the administrative department for industry and commerce and obtained legal qualifications in accordance with relevant national laws and regulations. (4) Foreigners and foreign enterprises refer to natural persons with foreign nationality and legal persons established according to foreign laws and registered in foreign countries. Such applicants should apply for trademark registration in China in accordance with the agreement signed between their country and China or the international treaties to which * * * is a party or the principle of reciprocity, and entrust the trademark agency organization designated by the State Administration for Industry and Commerce to handle it.