2. If the applicant wishes to enjoy priority, he/she must declare his/her priority request to some relevant member countries of the Paris Convention, and indicate the date of the previous application, the country that accepted the first application and the application number. This is a mandatory provision on priority. In addition, the domestic laws of the member countries of the Paris Convention also require the first copy and translation of the application.
Third, the priority requirement is based on the first application to the member countries of the Paris Convention. There are two problems involved here: first, if the applicant has declared his claim for priority in the second application before the first application is rejected or before the applicant abandons the first application, the priority claimed by the applicant is still valid; Secondly, if the above-mentioned first application is not based on the priority advocated by Hu Youcheng at this time, then the second application is the first application, and its application date should be the starting date of the priority period. In general, the above second aspect is not common.
4. If the country applying for trademark registration for the first time is not a member of the Madrid Agreement but a member of the Paris Convention, such as Britain and Japan, as long as the applicant has the qualifications and conditions for international registration of Madrid trademarks, the applicant has the right to claim priority in the designated protection country.