商标恶意申请的规制与对策

Regulations and Countermeasures on the Behavior of Malicious Application to Trademark

商标恶意申请是指行为人为牟取不当利益,将他人在先使用的商标或者他人拥有其他权利的标识抢先申请注册,虽然我国商标法已对该行为进行了规制,但是立法过于抽象,操作性不强,导致商标注册中恶意申请现象仍然大量存在,严重扰乱公平竞争的市场秩序。通过分析商标恶意申请形成的根源,提出预防商标恶意申请的对策。

Trademark squatting refers to registering the mark being used by others or identification of other rights possessed by others. Trademark law of China has regulated the behavior, but squatting still exists considerably, seriously disrupting the order of the market economy due to the low operability of the law. This article first reviews the domestic and international legislation on squatting, explores the definition of malicious cybersquatting, and then analyzes the reasons for this phenomenon, and finally proposes how to prevent our trademark squatting behavior countermeasures.