Can other people or companies apply for trademarks after applying for copyright?
Hello, trademark and copyright protection have their own emphasis. It is suggested that copyright registration should be carried out after graphic trademark registration. For graphic trademarks, what is protected is the graphic itself. Once the copyright registration is completed, the graphic shall not be used in any field without authorization and shall not be restricted by the specific category of the trademark. But if others make similar graphics, as long as they are original works, they can also complete the copyright registration. In terms of similarity and confusion, copyright protection is not as strong as trademark, so the characteristics of copyright protection are not strong. Trademark rights protect the trademarks of goods or services under a specific category. As long as it is a specific category, it is not good for others to be similar to it or confuse others. After the trademark of a graphic is registered in the copyright registration, if another person applies for the trademark registration of the graphic in other categories, the copyright owner of the graphic has the right to apply for cancellation of the trademark. The cost of copyright registration is much lower than that of all kinds of trademark registration. In addition, copyright registration takes much shorter time than trademark registration. In the process of trademark application, the trademark is in a virtual state, and copyright registration has become an important means of protection in this period.