Trademark inquiring system and method

Abstract

The invention discloses a trademark inquiring system and a trademark inquiring method. The trademark inquiring system comprises an inquiring module, a characteristic extracting module, a index database, a trademark database, a characteristic database, a search module and a display module, wherein the inquiring module is used for receiving the trademark to be inquired; the characteristic extracting module is used for extracting the trademark characteristic of the trademark to be inquired; the index database is used for storing extracted trademark characteristic of the trademark to be inquired; the trademark database is used for storing existing trademark; the characteristic database is used for storing trademark characteristic of the existing trademark; the search module is used for matching the trademark characteristic of the trademark to be inquired with the trademark characteristic of the existing trademark; the display module is used for displaying the matching result. The workload can be reduced for the examiners, the work efficiency is improved and the degree of accuracy of the inquiring result is improved.

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technical field [0001] The present invention relates to a trademark search system, in particular to a trademark search system and method. Background technique [0002] With the rapid economic development and the full implementation of the trademark strategy, the number of trademark registration applications shows a trend of rapid growth. In 2012, the China Trademark Office accepted a total of 1.648 million trademark registration applications, a year-on-year increase of 16.3%, ranking first in the world for 11 consecutive years; reviewed 1.227 million trademark registration applications, a year-on-year increase of 1.8%; and ruled on 73,000 opposition cases , an increase of 28.7% year-on-year; 52,500 trademark review cases were completed, an increase of 50% year-on-year. The cumulative number of trademark applications in my country exceeded 10 million, reaching 11.36 million, the cumulative number of registrations was 7.656 million, and the number of valid registered trademar...

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Problems solved by technology

[0006] Therefore, traditional query methods can easily miss visually similar but differently coded motifs

Moreover, for trademarks with complex patterns, it is difficult to decompose them into query elements, and then it is impossible to use codes for query

Moreover, due to manual decomposition, different people may have different understandings of the same trademark graphics, which may result in different descriptions of elements after decomposition, and the result of the query may be wrong

[0007] Moreover, due to the continuous increase in the number of trademark registrations and examinations, the trademark database has also increased significantly, while the traditional manual search method requires a lot of manpower and material resources when making judgments, which increases the difficulty of examination, prolongs the examination time, and Examination accuracy and quality will drop significantly, so traditional manual methods are no longer able to cope with the increasing number of trademark applications and infringement cases

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