Pantent and trademark

Pantent   

  • The term patent comes from the Latin Litterae patentes, meaning open letters or public documents, issued by the medieval monarch to prove some kind of privilege, and later refers to the exclusive rights of a certificate signed by the King of England himself. A patent is the world's largest source of technical information, according to the empirical statistical analysis, patent contains 90% -95% of the world IT technical information. (Go to Baidu Encyclopedia)
  • When anyone has an invention or creation, to safeguard its interests, apply to the Intellectual Property Office, after examination that meet the provisions of the Patent Act, which granted the patent, the patent rights are.
  • Patentee the exclusive right to exclude a certain period without their consent others manufacture, sale, an offer to sell, use or import rights for these purposes of the article；
  • Proprietary method patentee to exclude others without their consent and the use of the method and the use, sale, offer for sale, or for the purpose of importing the above method directly into the right goods. (Go to the Intellectual Property Office)

 

Trademark  

  • Trademark is used to indicate and identify the difference between the goods / services, so the trademark must have let people be able to recognize the relevant purchase of goods / services, and to identify the function of different goods / services, if based on the designated goods / services or generic name direct obvious explanation as a trademark, a trademark does not have the function of indicating origin and the difference.
  • With economic activity and marketing lively and diverse markets, trademark patterns in addition to the traditional text, graphics and signs, the color, three-dimensional shapes, sounds, dynamic hologram, and even smell, touch, taste and other types, if have to identify the source function, are likely to become a trademark. (Go to the Intellectual Property Office)
  • Trademark registration system is based on the principle of the protection of trademark applications made ​​legally registered trademark, the trademark owner can use in addition to himself and to authorize others to use, you can also exclude others with the same or similar trademarks specified using the same or similar goods / services Register. If any person without the consent of the trademark owner to use the mark, but there is trademark infringement or trademark infringement case of danger, the trademark owner may request to exclude or prevent the infringement, trademark infringement for intentional or negligent person, you can also request damages.