Taiwan Trademark
 

      Trademark "is used to identify and distinguish the goods instructions / 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 common name direct or obvious explanation as a trademark, a trademark does not have the function of indicating origin and distinction. 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。

Trademark Attorney

     Apply for trademark registration and related matters, was handled by an agent appointed by the trademark. But in the ROC no domicile or establishment, shall apply for the appointment of a trademark agent。

Taiwan Trademark Notice approved validation

      Approval of the trademark has been approved, the applicant shall, within two months after the approval was served, after paying the registration fee, before the announcement to be registered and issued a trademark registration; sessions of those who did not pay, will not be registered announcement. The applicant is not due to intentional, not prescribed deadline contributors in the preceding paragraph, may within six months after the expiry of the payment period, payment of the registration fee twice after the announcement by the trademark responsible authority. But the impact of this third person during the period for registration or to obtain trademark rights, shall not whom.

Taiwan trademark priority

       In the Republic of mutual recognition of national priority or WTO membership, application for trademark registration in accordance with law, the applicant within six months after the first application, the Republic of China on the application of all or part of the same goods or service, with the same trademark registration who have advocated priority。   

          Should also be declared in the application for registration, and contain the following items in the application:

1、The filing date of the application for the first time

2、National admissibility of the application or WTO Member

3、Application No. time of application

The applicant shall, within three months after the application, the prosecution sent by the State or WTO member before the acceptance of the application documents to prove items。

Taiwan's trade mark rights

        Since the announcement date registered trademarks obtain trademark rights by the people during the trademarks of ten years. Trademark may apply for extension of the period, each extension of ten years. Extend the trademark, shall be made within six months before the expiry of the trademark application and registration fee payment extension; their application within six months, should pay the registration fee twice extended period after the expiry of the trademark. The applicant is not due to intentional, not prescribed deadline contributors in the preceding paragraph, may within six months after the expiry of the payment period, payment of the registration fee twice after the announcement by the trademark responsible authority. But the impact of this third person during the period for registration or to obtain trademark rights, shall not whom。

      After the registration of trademarks, trade / services registered trademark in designated obtain trademark rights. Therefore, use of the trademark, shall refer to the registered trademark on goods / services specified in terms of registration. If you save fees and combine multiple patterns into a single application for trademark registration, review and approval by the registrant at the time of the actual use of a trademark shall not use only a part of or separate use of each part, otherwise the overall impression of a registered trademark is not the same, will be unused because of the registered trademark and trademark rights have been abolished danger。