As the most important intangible asset of an enterprise, a trademark is directly related to the life and death of the enterprise, which makes more and more enterprises attach importance to the role of trademarks and makes the number of trademark registrations increase year after year. Under such circumstances, the classification of trademarks by many registrants is still not clear enough. Today, intellectual property rights will be introduced to you. What are the specific classifications of trademarks?
from the definition of trademark, it refers to the characters, graphics, letters, numbers, three-dimensional signs, color combinations and sounds, or the combination of these elements, which are used by the producers and operators of commodities on the commodities they produce, manufacture, process, select or distribute or the services provided by the service providers to distinguish the sources of commodities or services, so as to make them have distinctive features. Therefore, the types of trademark registration can be divided into the following categories:
1. word mark
Trademarks composed only of characters, including China Chinese characters and minority characters, foreign characters and Arabic numerals, or trademarks combined with various characters.
2. Graphic trademarks
are trademarks composed only of graphics. Among them, it can be divided into:
1. Mark trademarks are trademarks with patterns formed by some simple symbols;
2. Geometric graphic trademarks are trademarks composed of abstract graphics;
3. The natural graphic trademark is a graphic trademark that takes people, animals and plants, natural scenery and other natural objects as objects. (i.e., it can be processed, summarized, exaggerated, etc. directly, and it is composed of natural graphics)
3. Alphabetic trademarks
are generally the smallest writing units of pinyin characters or phonetic symbols, and also include trademarks composed of pinyin characters and foreign letters such as English letters and Latin letters.
4. Digital trademarks
refer to trademarks composed of Arabic numerals, Roman numerals or Chinese capital numerals.
5. Three-dimensional logo trademark
refers to a trademark logo composed of three dimensions: length, width and height. However, this trademark is different from the usual flat trademark pattern and appears in a three-dimensional form. Usually, this form may appear in the shape of goods, or in containers or other places of goods (the newly revised Trademark Law in 21 added the new content of three-dimensional trademarks, making China's trademark protection system more perfect).
6. Color combination trademark
A color combination trademark refers to a trademark formed by arranging and combining two or more colors. However, it should be noted that the trademark composed of words, patterns and colors is not a color combination trademark, but a general combination trademark.
7. Overall combined trademark
refers to a trademark composed of two or more ingredients, also known as a composite trademark. In many cases, the trademarks we see are all overall combined trademarks.
8. Sound trademark
A group of music composed of notes or a special sound as a trademark of goods or services is called a sound trademark. For example, the specific music of INTEL in the United States has become an important symbol to identify its products, but the sound trademark is only recognized in a few countries such as the United States.
9. Smell trademark
Smell trademark is a trademark that uses a special smell to distinguish different goods and different services. At present, this kind of trademark is only recognized by a few countries, and China can't register a trademark by smell at present.
As can be seen from the above introduction, the classification of trademarks is actually very rich, which makes the choices of trademark registrants more abundant. However, because trademark registration takes a long time and has many variables, choosing a professional and experienced trademark registration agency for you can not only increase the success rate of trademark registration, but also make trademark registration more convenient. The Intellectual Property Group is headquartered in Shanghai, with molecular companies in Beijing, Shanghai, Guangdong, Zhejiang and other places, providing intellectual property services, and looking for Bajie. Trademark registration classification graphic trademark registration trademark registration application