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Does the same company name count as infringement?

You can register and it is not illegal. The premise is that if the industry is different and the company is not a group company, it is generally possible.

Enterprise name selection criteria

Enterprise name is composed of administrative division + font size + industry characteristics + organizational form. These four parts will work as long as one of the first three is different.

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Legal basis:

Article 57 of the "Trademark Law" Any one of the following acts shall be an infringement of the exclusive right to use a registered trademark :

(1) Using the same trademark as the registered trademark on the same product without the permission of the trademark registrant;

(2) Without the permission of the trademark registrant , using a trademark that is similar to its registered trademark on the same kind of goods, or using a trademark that is the same or similar to its registered trademark on similar goods, which is likely to cause confusion;

(3) Sales infringement of the exclusive right to register a trademark goods;

(4) Forging or manufacturing registered trademarks of others without authorization or selling counterfeit or unauthorized registered trademarks;

(5) Without the consent of the trademark registrant , replaces its registered trademark and puts the goods with the changed trademark into the market;

(6) Intentionally providing facilities for infringement of the exclusive rights of others’ trademarks and helping others to infringe the exclusive rights of trademarks;< /p>

(7) Causing other damage to the exclusive right to use registered trademarks of others.

Article 58: Anyone who uses someone else’s registered trademark or unregistered well-known trademark as a trade name in a company name to mislead the public and constitute unfair competition shall be punished in accordance with the "People's Republic of China and the National Anti- Unfair Competition Law".

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