Glossary
® symbol / registered symbol
Absolute grounds for refusal
Accelerated examination
Action for invalidity
Adjunctivity
Agent’s mark
Amendment of the trade mark register
Antonomasia
Application
Application for cancellation (utility model)
Assignment
Blacklist
Branch-off
Brand value
Calculation of damages
Cancellation proceedings
Cease-and-desist declaration
Cease-and-desist declaration with penalty clause
Cease-and-desist letter
Certificate
Certificate of registration
Certification mark
Class
Class fees
Clear representation of the sign
Coexistence agreement
Collective mark
Combined word/device mark
Company logo
Company name
Competition law
Compulsory licence
Confidentiality agreement
Copyright
Customs seizure
Damages
Degree of trade mark recognition
Delimitation agreement
Design
Design application
Design infringement
Design protection
Design search
Design term of protection
DesignView
Destruction
Distinctive character
Distinctiveness
Division
Domain
Domain dispute
DPMA
DPMAregister
EmpCo Directive
Employee invention
Equivalent marks
EU trade mark
EUIPO
Exclusive monopoly right
Exclusive right
Exhaustion
Extension of protection
Fast Track
Figurative mark
Filing date
Functions of a trade mark
Genuine use
German Unfair Competition Act (UWG)
Goods and services
Grace period for novelty
Grace period for use
Grant of a patent
Green Claims Directive
Hologram mark
Individual character
Industrial applicability
Industrial property law
Information claim
Infringer’s profits
Injunctive relief
Inspection claim
International registration (IR mark)
Invalidity
Invalidity application (design)
Invention
Inventive step
Inventor
IP infringement
IP notice
Know-how
Know-how licence
Know-how protection
Licence
Licence agreement
Licence analogy
Likelihood of confusion
Locarno Classification
Logo
Lost profit
Madrid Agreement
Mark acquired through use
Maturity for cancellation
Multiple application
Multiple marking
National trade mark
NDA
New generic top-level domain
Nice Classification
Non-use defence
Novelty
Obstacle to registration
Official fees
Opposition
Opposition period
Origin function
Patent
Patent application
Patent claim
Patent infringement
Patent opposition
Patent protection
Patent search
Patent specification
Plagiarism
Preliminary injunction
Priority
Priority period
Priority rank
Processing time
Product piracy
Protection against imitation
Protective brief
Publication
Published patent application
Reasonable secrecy measures
Recall
Registered design
Registered design (former term: design patent/design)
Registered symbol
Registrability
Registration
Relative grounds for refusal
Removal claim
Rendering of accounts
Renewal
Retail services
Revocation
Right to information
Risk of repetition
Scope of protection
Search keywords
Second-level domain
Seniority
Similarity search
Slogan
Sound mark
Specialist lawyer
State of the art
Subsequent designation
Tactile mark
Technology transfer
Term of protection
Territoriality
Third-party observations (Section 37(6) German Trade Mark Act)
Three-dimensional mark
Title of a work
TM symbol
TMclass
TMview
Top-level domain
Trade mark
Trade mark application
Trade mark identity
Trade mark infringement
Trade mark protection
Trade mark search
Trade name
Trade secret
Trade secret infringement
Types of trade marks
Unfair competition law
Utility model
Utility model application
Utility model protection
Variety denomination
Vienna Classification
WIPO
Withdrawal of the application
Word mark

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80336 Munich
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Rechtsanwältin
Fachanwältin für gewerblichen Rechtsschutz

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D-80336 München