Attention To Intellectual Property Infringement

Infringement of intellectual property rights is mainly divided into four types:

One is trademark infringement, which is the last thing we want to see, because this is the most blatant category. tort Behavior, before 1998, this infringement occurred quite a lot, in recent years, with most enterprises intellectual property right The improvement of consciousness has been gradually reduced.

However, enterprises should pay attention to the use of trademarks. region And time. The use of some trademarks is limited by regions. For example, the trademarks of certain products can be used in the United States, but not in Italy, because the use of a trademark in a certain area requires the authorization of the trademark owner. There is also a time limit for trademark. The period of a trademark may be 10 years or 20 years. If the term is still exceeded, it may be infringed. For example, when the German household appliance exhibition was held in 2001, a domestic enterprise in Nanchang, China, was faced with this problem. Because the trademark used by Nanchang's Italy company was more than the time authorized by the company of the city of Lac, it was prosecuted for infringement. The exhibits carefully arranged by the company were all confiscated by the local police before they were launched, and the losses were considerable.

The second type of infringement is to copy others' appearance, structure and principle. This tort is the most frequent occurrence in recent years, accounting for 80% of the total infringement cases.

Another type of infringement we seldom notice is the alleged infringement of the color, packaging and fixture of the goods. When it comes to the color of goods, people may have doubts. Can color also constitute infringement, but in fact, there is such a thing. Some foreign businessmen are very crafty. They may register the color of goods in a certain area. Other manufacturers' goods will not be able to use this color when they enter the area. In Illinois, for example, the wrench exported to the region can not use red color. Other manufacturers imitate other people's packaging and samples, which also cause intellectual property disputes. In addition, there is another kind of infringement that is most easily overlooked. The so-called fixture is an attachment to the fixed exhibition products. If the exhibitors do not pay attention, it will also constitute infringement, because during the exhibition, all products are commercial.

The fourth category is sample infringement. In the previous exhibitions, sample infringement occurred quite a lot, accounting for 20%. This happened in this year's Milan bathroom exhibition in Italy. One of the companies in the Chinese pavilion was not suspected of infringement, but a picture of a sewage treatment pump was accused of infringement by a manufacturer in Italy. During the 2000 Cologne Hardware Exhibition in Germany, a serious conflict between Chinese exhibitors and local police stems from the infringement of sample images of a Chinese company. Therefore, when attending the exit exhibitions, exhibitors should not only pay attention to the examination of exhibitors, but also pay attention to the pictures and samples displayed.