What Are The Subjects Of Applying For Trademark Registration? Can Natural Persons Apply For Trademark Registration?

The existing trademark law of the People's Republic of China stipulates that the main body of trademark rights has the following 5 kinds of persons: (1) enterprises and institutions: enterprises must be legally registered and independently liable for civil liabilities; (2) social organizations: social organizations, namely, the social organizations that need to use trademarks to provide services or to approve production, manufacture, processing, picking or distributing commodities; (3) individuals and businessmen who have obtained industrial and commercial registration and independently assume civil liability according to law; (4) personal partnership: (5) foreign or foreign enterprises (their applications for trademark registration in China should be handled according to the agreements signed by their countries with China or international treaties or reciprocal principles). According to

To sum up, according to the existing trademark law, foreign natural persons (including Mainland China) can apply for registered trademarks in China, while Chinese natural persons can not apply for trademark registration at present, nor can they be permitted to use other people's registered trademarks.

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