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Do you have any idea about trademarks? A trademark is a name or symbol that a company uses on its products. Trademark also protects the rights of the owner over its product, sign, design etc. The concept of supplemental trademark registration and Principal trademark registration exists in the USA. If a trademark owner is holding supplemental trademark registration in the USA and is willing to convert trademark the same into Principal registration in another country other than the USA. For example India.
Here in this blog, we would update you regarding the conversion process. Further, we would guide you about what supplemental trademark and principal trademark is.
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The United States Trademark Act provides two types of registration of trademark with the United States Patent and Trademark Office. These two types of registrations are:
This is meant for those trademarks which are mostly arbitrary and suggestive.
Supplemental registration is treated as the secondary registration of the trademarks.
Moreover, Supplemental registration is only meant for descriptive trademarks which have not acquired any distinctiveness (easily distinguishable). It allows domestic registration of a trademark which does not fulfill all the requirements of Principal registration.
Under the United States Trademark Act, Principal registration varies from supplemental registration. There are numerous differences between Principal registration and supplemental registration. The difference between principal registration and supplemental registration is given below in tabular form:
2) Principal trademark registration gives exclusive rights to the trademark owner to use his/her trademark.
3) Through Principal registration, a trademark owner is entitled to get unlimited protection in respect of his/her trademark
4) Under Principal Trademark registration, the owner of a trademark gets unlimited protection in respect of his/her trademark
2) Under Supplemental trademark registration, a trademark owner is not required to prove or show his continuous rights in the trademark.
3) However, Supplemental trademark registration never gives exclusive rights to the trademark owner to use his/her trademark.
4) But under Supplemental registration, the protection is limited in comparison to Principal trademark registration.
If an owner of a trademark takes Principal registration, then he/she is entitled to avail a number of benefits and advantages. The list of the advantages of Principal registration is discussed below:
Though a Supplemental Trademark registration provides basic protection to your trademark, however, it never gives you certain rights. The reasons not to use the Supplemental Trademark registration are as follows:
There are certain marks which cannot be registered under supplemental trademark registration. These are as follows:
Please note that a trademark registered under Supplemental registration cannot be converted to a principal registration.
However, to get the registration of the trademark in Principal registration, the trademark owner needs to produce proof that his/her mark acquired distinctiveness. However, the trademark owner after five years of continued use of the trademark can apply for Principal registration. As proof, the owner of the trademark can produce sales receipts, advertisements, and brochures of his/her trademark.
Section 2(f) of U.S. Trademark Act permits the trademark registration in Principal register if the owner of the trademark acquired distinctiveness relating to the goods or services.
Under the US Trademark Act, principal registration is best for registration of a trademark. Through Principal registration, a trademark owner is eligible to get many rights and benefits. Principal registration gives exclusive rights to the owner to use the trademark. If any trademark owner takes registration under supplemental registration then it will be advisable to convert same into Principal registration.
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