A brief of trade mark

Trade mark is a distinctive name, symbols, motto, or design that legally identifies a company or its product and services, and sometimes prevents others from using identical or similar marks.

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Sometimes people will get confuse by the different between trade mark, patent and copyright. So what is the different between three of these? Trade mark is different from copyright and patent while a copyright provides protection for an artistic or literary work. And, a patent provides protection for an invention. Unlike copyrights and patents, trade marks rights
may be renewed for each consecutive period of 10 years indefinitely, if the trade mark continues to be used.

Besides that, is it everyone can register a trade mark? Actually it is not, only the owner of the trade mark can register the trade mark. The owner can be an individual, partnership or a company.

In Malaysia, the registration of trade mark does takes approximately 18-24 months to get registered from the date the application is filed. This is provided the application does not encounter any objections or oppositions.

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After I read these article, I understand well about what is trade mark all about. I start understand better about the different of copyright and trade mark as the copyright is only protected the literary like a song, a drawing only. the trade mark will be like prevent using the similar marks for example, Mc Donald have trade mark normally known as TM, people can't copy the name.

So do you guys understand the trade mark after read my article and can give some feedback? hopefully it's work. Thanks have a great day!



Joanne Wong