Grounds for opposition include:
- Identical or confusingly similar to a internationally known trademark
- Unauthorized use of national insignia or protected emblems
- Company name rights
- Conflict with moral standards or issues with public policy
- Geographical indication in the mark
- Generic mark
- Personal name rights
- Registered design rights
- Trade name rights
- Registration under representative’s name instead of the proprietor
- Use of protected armorial bearings, state emblems or flags
- Well-known mark rights
- Breach of copyright
- Proprietary rights
- Functional, misleading, disparaging, deceptive or descriptive marks
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