Hello, the characteristics of EU trademarks are as follows:

1. EU trademark law belongs to the civil law system, and registration is based on the first-to-file principle.

2. The types of trademark registration include commodity trademarks, service trademarks, collective trademarks, three-dimensional trademarks, color trademarks, sound trademarks and smell trademarks.

3. Trademark registration shall adopt the International Classification of Goods and Services for Trademark Registration.

4. The European Union joined the Madrid Protocol on October 1, 2004, and is a purely protocol member state.

5. You only need to submit an application at the European Union Intellectual Property Office to protect 28 member states at the same time. The list is as follows (the EU includes France, Germany, Italy, Belgium, the Netherlands, Luxembourg, Denmark, Ireland, 28 members including the United Kingdom, Greece, Spain, Portugal, Austria, Finland, Sweden, Cyprus, Hungary, Poland, the Czech Republic, Malta, Slovakia, Latvia, Estonia, Lithuania, Slovenia, Bulgaria, Romania, and Croatia. country).

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