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TM-Conqueror: Trademark law in Germany, Europe and the World

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Are all sign eligible for protection as a trademark?

As it is most of the times, you will find the answer in the German Trademark Act. According to Section 3, the signs eligible for protection as trade marks are:

(1) All signs, particularly words including personal names, designs, letters, numerals, sounds, three-dimensional designs, the shape of goods or of their packaging as well as other wrapping, including colours and colour combinations, may be protected as trade marks if they are capable of distinguishing the goods or services of one undertaking from those of other undertakings.

(2) Signs consisting exclusively of shapes or other characteristics

1.  which result from the nature of the goods themselves;

2.  which are necessary to obtain a technical result; or

3.  which give substantial value to the goods

shall not be capable of being protected as trade marks.

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Are all sign eligible for protection as a trademark?

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