侵犯美术作品著作权的商标异议的法律适用问题

Issue of Law Application about Trademark Demurral to Tort on Copyright of Art Works

根据《商标法》第31条规定对商标注册申请提出商标异议在实践中较为普遍,但商标审查机关和法院在裁定审理类似案件的过程中,往往过度重视在先权利的保护而忽略商标申请人的合法权益,特别是在先著作权的载体已经被注册成为商标的场合,如何平衡在先著作权人、在先商标权人和在后商标申请人三者之间的利益,往往涉及知识产权权利竞合、利害关系人申请权判定、在先作品著作权认定,以及申请商标是否抄袭或复制在先作品等重要实体与程序问题。文章从一起代表性案例出发,对这些实体与程序问题提出了自己的看法,希望对商标审查和法院裁决形成有益参考。

It＇s very common to apply for a trademark demurral to an application for trademark registration according to the article 31 of Trademark Law in practice. However, during the investigation or judge from trademark competent department or court, people always put too much attention on the protection of existing rights and less on the legal rights of trademark applicant, Especially when existing protected works have already been registered as a trademark. How to balance legal rights among the prior copyright owner, prior trademark owner and the trademark applicant, always related to intellectual property rights concurrence, determination by the application of interested parties, affirmation of existing-work copyrights, as well as the judge of copy or not between the trademark and the existing works. This paper stands in the angle of a representative case, issue some ideas to the above-mentioned entity or procedure problems, wishing some benefits to the investigation or judgement.