Trademarks may be used.

1. Different definitions

There is no such thing as an electronic receipt in the old and new trademark laws. The electronic receipt is only an application document downloaded from the Trademark Office’s online reporting system. It can be downloaded on the second working day after declaration, and it has the acceptance number and QR code on it. This has no legal effect.

Trademark use authorization letter: When the trademark owner licenses or authorizes the use of his trademark to others, it is a certificate issued to the licensee to prove that the permission or authorization has occurred. document.

2. The legal protections received are different

After the trademark acceptance notice is issued, TM can be printed on the trademark packaging, and R can be printed after the trademark registration certificate is obtained.

The TM on the trademark also has its own special meaning. In fact, the TM mark does not protect the trademark. It is different from R. TM means that the trademark has been applied to the National Trademark Office, and the National Trademark Office The "Notice of Acceptance" has also been issued and the opposition period has entered. This will prevent others from filing repeated applications and also means that existing trademark holders have priority to use the trademark.

The use of TM means the trademark symbol, that is, the words, graphics or symbols marked with TM are trademarks, but they are not necessarily registered (unregistered ones are not protected by law).