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¿Qué es una marca?
¿Qué es una marca?
Una marca es todo signo visible que se utiliza para distinguir e individualizar un producto o servicio de otros de su misma clase o especie.
¿Cuál es la función de una marca?
¿Cuál es la función de una marca?
Servir como elemento de identificación de los diversos productos y servicios que se ofrecen y se prestan en el mercado.
¿Por qué es importante el registro de una marca?
¿Por qué es importante el registro de una marca?
El registro de una marca le da al propietario el derecho exclusivo a usarla en toda la República Mexicana.
¿Cuáles son las características de una marca?
¿Cuáles son las características de una marca?
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El nombre de una marca está escrito en la ley.
El nombre de una marca está escrito en la ley.
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¿Qué es un logotipo?
¿Qué es un logotipo?
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¿Cuál es la importancia de registrar una marca?
¿Cuál es la importancia de registrar una marca?
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¿Cuál es la diferencia entre un producto y un servicio?
¿Cuál es la diferencia entre un producto y un servicio?
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¿Qué es una clase en el contexto de las marcas?
¿Qué es una clase en el contexto de las marcas?
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Study Notes
Patentes y Marcas
- Marca: A visible sign used to distinguish a product or service from others of the same type.
- Function: Identifies products/services in the market.
- Importance: Helps consumers select preferred products/services.
- Registration: Grants exclusive use rights in Mexico for 10 years, renewable.
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Characteristics:
- Name (Nombre): The verbal identity of the brand.
- Logo (Logotipo): The graphic representation of the brand name, part of the visual identity.
- Graphics (Grafísimos): Drawings, colors, or non-pronounceable representations.
- Products/Services: Goods/services that will carry a specific brand.
- Classes (Clases): Groups of products/services with a shared function or characteristic, internationally classified.
- Registrable Marks: Visible, distinctive, original, novel, unique, easily recognized, and not already registered or a well-known name. Includes words, designs, shapes, and logos.
Types of Marks
- Nominated: Simply a name as the distinguishing mark.
- Unnamed: Designs or logos as the distinguishing mark.
- Mixed: Combination of name and design/logo.
- Three-dimensional: The shape of an object is the distinguishing mark.
- Collective: Used by societies or merchants in a geographical area to distinguish their products/services from others.
Protection of Marks and Copyrights
- Protection: Grants exclusive right to the registered owner to use the mark nationwide.
- Validity Period: 10 years, renewable every 10 years.
- Owner Rights: Prevent unauthorized use of the mark.
- Registration: Granted by the Instituto Mexicano de la Propiedad Industrial (IMPI).
Validity of Marks, Copyrights and Patents
- Registration: Granted for 10 years from the registration date. It is renewable.
- Invalidity: If the product/service is not compliant with the law, or is identical or similar to another already registered product/service, thus, causing confusion, the registration could be invalidated within 5 years of the registration date.
Commercial Notices (Slogans)
- Validity: 10 years, renewable in the same way as trademarks.
Industrial Designs
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Two Main Categories:
- Drawings (Dibujos): The use of colors, shapes, and lines to decorate industrial products adding a unique and distinctive look.
- Models (Modelos): Three-dimensional forms of industrial products that give them a unique appearance but without changing the function of the product.
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Validity: 5 years, renewable up to a maximum of 25 years.
Models of Utility
- Objects/Tools: Modified tools that offer a new function or improvement on existing tools.
Trade Secrets
- Confidential Information: Information crucial to a company’s economic or commercial strategy.
Patents
- Certification: A government-issued certificate allowing exclusive use of an invention. Validity is 20 years.
- New Products/Processes: Protects new inventions.
Work
- Definition: Human effort, often for wage.
- Rights: A social right and duty, recognizing the dignity of the person.
Participation in Profits
- Right: Workers have a right to a share of company profits.
- Purpose: Improve worker living standards.
Employment Conditions
- Regulation: Ensures safe and equitable working conditions.
Salary
- Components: Includes wages, bonuses, benefits, and services provided in kind.
Collective Labor Relations
- Agreements: Contracts between groups of workers and employers.
Specific Crimes
- Fraud: Deliberate deception for personal gain.
Abuse of Trust
- Definition: Misuse of a position of trust or responsibility.
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Explora el mundo de las patentes y marcas en México. Este cuestionario cubre la importancia, características y clases de marcas, además del proceso de registro y sus derechos exclusivos. Es fundamental para cualquier persona interesada en la propiedad intelectual.
