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What is the primary criterion for determining if a mark is well-known in relation to a specific applicant?

  • Knowledge among the relevant sector of the public (correct)
  • Previous registrations in international markets
  • Popularity among the public at large
  • Unique characteristics of the goods or services

Which of the following is NOT a reason for rejecting a trademark application?

  • The mark consists exclusively of generic signs
  • The mark is deemed misleading concerning the quality of the goods
  • The mark is associated with a well-known registered mark in another country (correct)
  • The mark is identical to a registered mark related to dissimilar goods

What does it mean when a mark is considered identical or confusingly similar to a well-known mark?

  • It can only relate to goods that are identical in nature
  • It must be a direct translation of the registered mark
  • It may indicate a potential connection that could mislead the public (correct)
  • It will always lead to a rejection of the trademark application

Which condition would allow a mark that is a translation of a well-known mark to be considered for registration?

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Which scenario represents a valid reason for refusing the registration of a trademark based on its nature?

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What is a potential consequence for someone who uses a registered mark without the owner's consent?

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Which test is used to evaluate the overall impression of two trademarks for similarity?

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Which of the following actions could lead to a cancellation of a mark's registration?

<p>Challenging the registration based on possible infringement. (C)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What characterizes the Dominancy Test when determining trademark similarity?

<p>It focuses on the prevalent or dominant features of the trademarks. (D)</p> Signup and view all the answers

Under what condition can the use of a registered mark in commerce be considered infringing?

<p>If it leads to potential confusion, mistake, or deception. (B)</p> Signup and view all the answers

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Marks identical/confusingly similar

A mark that is the same as, or very similar to, another mark already in use for similar goods or services.

Well-known mark

A mark recognized internationally and in the Philippines by the relevant public, including through promotions in the Philippines.

Registered mark, dissimilar goods/services

A registered mark used for goods or services different from those being applied for, but could still be confusing.

Misleading the public

A mark that could wrongly convey information about the goods/services' nature, quality, or origin.

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Generic or customary signs

Standard terms widely used in branding or everyday language.

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Trademark Infringement

Using someone else's registered trademark without permission, likely to confuse consumers about the source of goods or services.

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Holistic Test

Comparing trademarks by considering the entire mark, including its visual, aural, and connotative aspects.

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Dominancy Test

Focusing on the prominent features of a trademark to determine if they are confusingly similar to another mark.

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Connotative Comparison

Comparing the implied meanings and associations of two trademarks.

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Aural Comparison

Comparing how trademarks sound when spoken.

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Study Notes

Intellectual Property Law - RA 8293

  • Intellectual Property Code of the Philippines: RA No. 8293, as amended by RA No. 10372
  • Subject matter of patents: New, useful, and applicable inventions
  • Registration: IPO (Intellectual Property Office)
  • Patent duration: 20 years
  • Kinds of Patents:
    • Invention Patent: Novelty, Inventive Step, Industrial Applicability
    • Design Patent: Novelty and Ornamentality
    • Utility Model: Novelty and Industrial Applicability
  • Patentable inventions: Any technical solution to a problem in any field of human activity that is new, involves an inventive step, and is industrially applicable. Can be a product, process, or improvement.
  • Non-patentable inventions:
    • Discoveries, scientific theories, mathematical methods
    • Schemes, rules, methods of mental acts, games, or business, and computer programs
    • Methods for treating the human or animal body by surgery or therapy, and diagnostic methods practiced on the human or animal body (except products/compositions for use in these methods)
    • Plant varieties, animal breeds, or essentially biological processes for the production of plants or animals (except microorganisms and non-biological/microbiological processes)
    • Aesthetic creations
    • Anything contrary to public order or morality
  • Elements of a patent:
    • Novelty: Invention not part of prior art
      • Prior Art: everything available to the public worldwide before filing/priority date. Includes earlier applications. Non-prejudicial disclosure (within 12 months) by inventor/patent office/third party is not considered a loss of novelty if certain conditions apply.
    • Inventive Step: Not obvious to a skilled person in the field at the time of filing/priority date
    • Industrial Applicability: Can be produced and used in an industry

Patent Application Process

  • Application contents: request, description, drawings, claims, abstract
  • Unity of invention: One application, one invention (or group of related inventions)
  • Divisional application: Allowed if more than one invention.
  • Grounds for cancellation: Not new, not sufficiently clear or complete for a skilled person to replicate, contrary to public order or morality
  • Right to a patent: Belongs to the inventor, heirs, or assigns.
    • Joint inventions: shared rights.
    • First to File Rule: Priority given to the first filing applicant if multiple individuals independently devise the same invention

Patent Rights & Obligations

  • Exclusive rights: Restrain unauthorized making, using, offering for sale, selling, or importing
  • Limitations: Use permitted for experiment/preparation, certain non-commercial uses, acts done privately, etc.
  • Prior user rights: Right to continue using an invention if in good faith use began before filing/priority date.
  • Government use: Government allowed to exploit invention if in public interest (national security, health, sector development) or a judicial/administrative body rules the current use is anti-competitive.
  • Infringement: Making, using, offering to sell, selling, or importing a patented invention without authorization
  • Remedies for patent infringement: Civil action, including damages, injunction protection, ordering disposal of infringing goods, and criminal action for repeat infringement (with imprisonment and/or fines).

Trademark Law

  • Marks: Visible signs distinguishing goods/services
  • How acquired: Trademark registration.
  • Unregisterable marks: Immoral, deceptive, scandalous, or disparaging matters; flags/emblems of Philippines/foreign countries; names/portraits/signatures (with some exceptions), identical or confusingly similar marks.
  • Colorable Imitation: Close imitation to deceive.
  • Kinds of terms: Generic (common descriptors), descriptive (obvious features), suggestive (suggests features), arbitrary or fanciful (no inherent relation).
  • Secondary meaning doctrine: Previously nondescriptive mark becomes descriptive through association
  • Copyright: Right of Literary/Artistic property
  • Copyright: Incorporeal right protecting literary/artistic works.
  • Protection commences: Automatically upon creation
  • Derative works: Protected as new works, but doesn't affect subsisting rights in the original.
  • Works not protected: Ideas, procedures, systems, methods, concepts, principles, discoveries, news, etc.
  • Government works: No copyright protection.
  • Moral rights: Exclusive rights to attribute authorship, alter/withhold work prior to publication.

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