Electronic trademarks refer to the behavior of some agencies registering domain names in the name of registered domain names, which has been stopped by the Trademark Office of the State Administration for Industry and Commerce. The following news reports are for your reference:

According to relevant legal provisions, the Trademark Office of the State Administration for Industry and Commerce is responsible for national trademark registration and management. The issues of "electronic trademarks" reported by enterprises have aroused the Trademark Office's great concern. Pay attention to. The Trademark Office believes that using the name of "electronic trademark" to solicit domain name registration business violates the relevant provisions of the Trademark Law and China's Internet Domain Name Management Measures. It does not bring any benefit to my country's domain name registration work. It will only interfere with the implementation of the Trademark Law and mislead enterprises. and consumers. To this end, the Trademark Office specially sent a letter to the China Internet Network Information Center, requesting the center to regulate the behavior of domain name registration service agencies engaged in domain name registration services in accordance with the law, and to guide domain name registration service agencies to comply with China Internet Domain Name Management Measures to provide domain name registration services to the society.

As a domain name registration management agency authorized by the Ministry of Information Industry, before receiving a letter from the Trademark Office, the China Internet Network Information Center had criticized individual domain name registration services for using the concept of "electronic trademarks" to mislead the public. It has been noticed and some measures have been taken. After receiving the letter from the Trademark Office, China Internet Network Information Center investigated and verified the behavior of using "electronic trademarks" to confuse "domain names" mentioned in the letter. After verification, this behavior was an individual behavior of a certain domain name registrar. China Internet Network Information Center believes that the domain name registration service agency's behavior of using the name of "electronic trademark" to provide domain name registration services is a "misleading behavior" prohibited by it. Before receiving the letter from the Trademark Office, China Internet Network Information Center had already suspended the registration interface of the organization for improper registration services based on user complaints and relevant regulations on October 12 this year.

China Internet Network Information Center attaches great importance to the problem of confusing "domain names" with "electronic trademarks". In order to prevent similar problems from occurring in the future, China Internet Network Information Center conveyed the spirit of the letter from the Trademark Office to all domain name registrars certified by it, requiring domain name registrars to carefully understand and strictly abide by it and effectively improve the quality of domain name registration services.

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