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| Information, Regulations, Prices, etc. |
| Frequently asked questions and answers regarding the Trademark Clearinghouse |
| Prices regarding registration at the Trademark Clearinghouse |
| Register your marks at the Trademark Clearinghouse |
| Rules and examples for identical matches of registered marks |
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Only identical matches of the marks registered at the Trademark Clearinghouse
may be registered during the Sunrise Periods. In scope of the application at
the Trademark Clearinghouse all readable supplements have to be specified.
Next to the disallowed marks (e.g. those which start with a preceding period or
dot) there are specifics regarding trademarks containing special characters.
The Trademark Clearinghouse has set up guidelines regarding replacement,
ommitance or transcribing of specific special characters.
Guidelines regarding special characters
Until now, the following guidelines regarding possible trademarks and
proceedings regarding special characters have been specified by the
Trademark Clearinghouse:
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Special characters in the trademark, which may not be specified or used
by the Domain Name System, may be either (a) omitted or (b) replaced by
a hyphen.
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Those special characters which may not be specified or used by the
Domain-Name-System (DNS) contained within the trademark (e.g. "@" or "&")
may be replaced by the matching terms in the appropriate official language
of the country where the trademark has been registered.
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Special characters, which are allowed or usable by the Domain Name System
(DNS) have to be specified within the application (e.g. hyphens).
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If the trademark contains special characters, which may be specified by the
Domain Name System (DNS), the special characters have to be used within the
application the Trademark Clearinghouse.
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According to ICANN-IDN-Regulations, mixing up different IDN character sets
(e.g. greek, arabic, cyrillic, chinese or japanese characters) with each
other with latin characters, is not allowed.
Trademarks which use mixed character sets can unfortunately not be used for
a registration within the Trademark Clearinghouse register.
Possible identical labels (Domain names) for example trademarks
For a better understanding and to show some examples, we sum up a colletion of
example marks and the corresponding identical replacements for you (based on a
hypothetical Top Level Domain .shop).
Example Trademark |
Replacement Guideline |
Permitted matching identical labels for example TLD .shop |
Your Mark |
Replacement of spaces |
your-mark.shop
yourmark.shop |
Mark-Product |
Persisting hyphen |
mark-product.shop |
Brands & Examples
(Example mark, Range of protection and registered in USA) |
Replacement of restricted special characters |
brandsexamples.shop
brands-examples.shop
brandsandexamples.shop
brands-and-examples.shop |
Best_Mark |
Replacement of restricted special characters |
bestmark.shop
best-mark.shop |
Latinβλεπω |
IDN combination |
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.marke
dotmarke |
Forbidden marks (with period or dot) |
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Mark INC |
Completeness of a mark |
markinc.shop
mark-inc.shop |
Knipp - Trademark Agent |
Completeness of a mark
Persiting hyphen |
knipp-trademarkagent.shop
knipp-trademark-agent.shop |
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As well as for this hypothectical Top Level Domain .shop, most likely those
examples will also be applicable for many other new Top Level Domains (e.g.
.online, .cloud, .app, etc.), if those Top Level Domains will be accepted
by ICANN.
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