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What should you do if you encounter malicious trademark squatting?

How to deal with malicious trademark squatting: First, hand over the dispute to a professional lawyer. After all, intellectual property rights are highly professional, and ordinary businesses are unable to deal with such problems. Please ask a lawyer for help. To safeguard your legitimate rights and interests, if it truly constitutes an infringement, you must wait for legal confirmation and the legal outcome shall prevail. Secondly, choose to resolve it through proper legal channels. In fact, malicious complainants themselves are malicious and do not dare to claim their rights openly. Compared with the merchants being complained against, they are less willing to go to court to litigate. Therefore, there is no need to worry about the adverse consequences of litigation, and they cannot choose to go private. The correct way to deal with it is to take legal channels and use the law to protect your legitimate rights and interests. Finally, malicious complainants are warned that if their behavior causes losses to themselves, the complainants will be held legally responsible, so that complainants will not dare to use their hidden identities to spread rumors and cause trouble, disrupting the normal operations of businesses. Legal remedies for malicious registration of trademarks Limitation on the number of registered trademarks One of the characteristics of "malicious trademark" people is to register a large number of trademarks at the same time, taking advantage of the broad coverage of trademarks to seek benefits in the form of probability. However, my country's Trademark Law does not stipulate the number of trademarks applied for by applicants, resulting in malicious applicants registering and possessing a large number of trademarks at extremely low costs, resulting in widespread harmful consequences. In this regard, the Trademark Law should make a positive response. When a commercial entity registers a trademark, it must implement the principle of necessity, limit the number of the same registered trademark, and plug the loopholes of malicious registration. Improvement of the legal remedy for malicious trademark squatting. The invalid trademark remedy system "Trademark Law" stipulates that if registration is obtained by deception or other unfair means, the Trademark Office shall declare the registered trademark invalid; other units or individuals may request the Trademark Review and Adjudication Board to declare This registered trademark is invalid. However, in practice, the determination of "deceptive means" and "unfair means" is very complicated, and it is more difficult to subjectively determine the "malice" of a person with a "bad faith trademark". The Trademark Law should refine the definition of a "bad faith trademark". Determining conditions and procedures, and promptly dealing with "bad faith trademark" behavior. It is wrong to maliciously snatch trademarks. The correct way is to file a complaint with the Trademark Office. However, the trademark must be investigated. If the investigation is malicious, the trademark will be canceled even if the registration is successful. There is no charge for trademark cancellation. You only need to bring relevant information to the Trademark Office for processing, or entrust a professional agency to handle it.