Non-conventional trademark

A non-conventional trademark, also known as a nontraditional trademark, is any new type of trademark which does not belong to a pre-existing, conventional category of trade mark, and which is often difficult to register, but which may nevertheless fulfill the essential trademark function of uniquely identifying the commercial origin of products or services.

Related Topics:
Trademark - Convention - Register

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The term is broadly inclusive as it encompasses marks which do not fall into the conventional set of marks (eg. those consisting of letters, numerals, words, logos, pictures, symbols, or combinations of one or more of these elements), and therefore includes marks based on appearance, shape, sound, smell, taste and texture.

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Non-conventional trademarks may therefore be visible signs (eg. colours, shapes, moving images, holograms, positions), or non-visible signs (eg. sounds, scents, tastes, textures).

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