应用区块链技术证明商标注册真诚使用意图

我国商标法第四次修改正式在商标注册中引入“真诚使用意图”概念,对从源头遏制商标恶意囤积以及恶意抢注等不正当行为具有重要作用。但随着时间流逝,证明“真诚使用意图”的证据极易消逝、难以保全。而区块链技术具有去中心化、分布式记账、带有时间戳、不易被篡改和公开透明等特点,可利用其对商标注册申请人的“真诚使用意图”进行证明。申请人可以将申请时的相关“真诚使用意图”证据载入区块链,商标局将此作为审查的参考标准,从而更好地规制申请人的商标注册行为,以建立良好的商标注册秩序。

Apply Blockchain Technology to Prove the Sincere Use Intention for Trademark Registration

The fourth revision of China's trademark law formally introduces the concept of sincere intention of use into the trademark registration. It has an important function to curb the improper behaviors such as malicious hoarding and malicious squatting of trademarks from the source. But as the hours pass away, evidence of sincere use of intention is easily lost and difficult to preserve. Blockchain technology has the characteristics of decentralization, distributed bookkeeping and not easy to be tampered with. It can be used to prove the sincere intention of use for trademark registration applicants. The applicant can load the sincere use intention in the application into the blockchain, and the trademark office can take this as the reference standard for examination, so as to better regulate the trademark registration behavior of the applicant and establish a good trademark registration order.