Bross & Partners helped Tea Cooperative Association of Nishio

successfully register its renowned brand name for matcha as a collective trademark in Vietnam

Email: vinh@bross.vn

Bross & Partners recently advised and represented a Japanese client to successfully register a Japanese matcha renowned brand name "Nishio Matcha" as a collective trademark in Vietnam as indicated below:

Unlike ordinary mark and certification mark[2], the distinctiveness of collective mark represents that it is used to distinguish goods, services of members of one collective group from any person or entity who are not members of that collective groupKhác với nhãn hiệu thông thường và cũng khác với nhãn hiệu chứng nhận, nhãn hiệu tập thể có chức năng phân biệt hàng hóa, dịch vụ của các thành viên thuộc một tập thể này với những người khác không phải là thành viên của tập thể đó

The difference between a collective mark and a certification mark or a common trademark also manifests in more two important characteristics. Particularly, while a certification mark is not and cannot be used by its owner, then in limited circumstances, the owner of a collective mark may use by itself that collective mark for the purpose of promoting, introducing or promoting the collective mark. Secondly, the ownership of a collective mark, which many people in practice mistakenly think that a registered collective mark is the joint-owned one (jointly owned by all members of the collective group), would belong to only and unique registrant (named on the certificate of registration of collective mark).

Bross & Partners has had experience in advising and successfully registered certification marks and collective marks in Vietnam. Should you have any query, please contact us at vinh@bross.vn or 84-903 287 057.

Bross & Partners, a renowned and qualified Patent, Design, Trademark and Copyright agent of Vietnam, constantly ranked and recommended by the Managing Intellectual Property (MIP), World Trademark Review (WTR), Legal 500 Asia Pacific, AsiaLaw Profiles, Asia IP and Asian Legal Business, is providing clients all over the world with the reliable, affordable contentious and non-contentious IP services including enforcement, anti-counterfeiting,  litigation regarding trademark, trade name, industrial design, patent, copyright and domain name.