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It is prohibited to use other people’s trademarks as website names

Our reporter Li Jibin’s draft amendment to the Trademark Law stipulates that anyone who uses another person’s or registered trademark as a trade name in a company’s name, misleading the public and constituting unfair competition, shall be punished in accordance with the "People's Republic of China and the People's Republic of China". shall be dealt with under the National Anti-Unfair Competition Law. When the draft amendments to the Trademark Law were reviewed in groups at the 30th meeting of the Standing Committee of the 11th National People's Congress recently, member Nan Zhenzhong suggested that network domain names and website names should be included in the scope of adjustment of this article in the same way as corporate names. Nan Zhenzhong said that the phenomenon of "pong" is very serious at present. For other people's registered trademarks, they are not only used as font sizes in business names, but also used as network domain names and website names, which seriously infringes on the legal rights of others. rights and interests. It is recommended that in this article, "domain name and website name" be added after "as the font size in the company name". Article 15 of the draft adjusts the right of "Anyone can raise objections to the preliminary trademark during the announcement period" to "only the prior rights holder or interested party of the trademark can raise objections in accordance with the law." Nan Zhenzhong believes that this The revision weakens the public's supervision of trademark registrations by deceptive or unfair means. It is recommended to add the provision that ‘during the preliminary trademark announcement period, the relevant public may lodge objections to the Trademark Office against trademarks applied for registration through deceptive or other unfair means’.