Yes. Third parties may oppose a trademark application based on these grounds:
- Conflict with an earlier right
- Breach of copyright
- Immoral or prohibited marks
- Rights in a notorious mark
- Marks registered under a representative’s name or agent’s name
- Rights in a design
- Rights in a personal name
- Protected armorial bearings, flags, symbols and state emblems
- Mark is functional, generic, misleading, deceptive, disparaging or descriptive
- Mark does not demonstrate distinctiveness
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