نوع مقاله : مقاله پژوهشی
نویسندگان
1 استادیار، دانشگاه پیام نور، تهران، ایران
2 دانشجوی دکتری حقوق خصوصی، دانشگاه اصفهان، ایران
چکیده
کلیدواژهها
عنوان مقاله [English]
نویسندگان [English]
Trademarks describe the goods or services that its owners are using sign to distinct their goods or services from competitor’s goods or services. These symptoms are so far mainly includes a range of traditional symptoms such as visual symptoms. But in the two past decades, smell trademarks also stepped into the sphere. Smell trademarks are too strong indicator of origin. This feature in these symptoms has led to manufacturers due to the use of these distinctive signs for making their goods or services of competitors. But the lack of support from these symptoms is a way to abuse the competitors openly. Hence the legal protection from these symptoms has justified. But this is a problem with the registration of marks is facing in two scope of conditions and forms, and this is opposition emerging from this legal protection new trademarks.
At the same time to support the smell trademarks are two options; 1) counterfeiting new terms and form or 2) redefining and maching the characteristics of smell trademarks on the conditions of the traditional symptoms. Hence, in this essay to be tried smell trademarks are protectable in the legal system mainly relying on the second option.
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