Hungary - Overview

1.	Legislation on Trademarks
	1.1	International legislation
	1.2	National legislation
		1.2.1	Trademark Law
		1.2.2	Unfair Competition Law
2.	Protected Signs
	2.1	Registered signs
	2.2	Unregistered signs
	2.3	Company names/Trade names
3.	Registration of Trademarks
	3.1	Owner
	3.2	Trademark
	3.3	Goods and services
	3.4	Priority
	3.5	Absolute grounds for refusal
		3.5.1	The absolute grounds for refusal
		3.5.2	Registration based on secondary meaning - acquired distinctiveness
	3.6	Relative grounds for refusal
	3.7	Term of protection
	3.8	Fees
	3.9	Remedies
	3.10	Flowcharts
		3.10.1	Regular trademark registration proceedings
		3.10.2	Accelerated trademark application procedure
4.	Enforcement
	4.1	Scope of Protection
		4.1.1	Use of a trademark
		4.1.2	Identity of signs and goods/services
		4.1.3	Likelihood of confusion
		4.1.4	Trademarks having reputation
		4.1.5	Unregistered signs/trade names
	4.2	Limitations of trademark rights
		4.2.1	Own name, descriptive and referential use
		4.2.2	Exhaustion
	4.3	Claims for trademark infringement
		4.3.1	Injunction
		4.3.2	Disclosure of information
		4.3.3	Publication of judgement
		4.3.4	Removal/Destruction
		4.3.5	Monetary claims
		4.3.6	Statute of limitation
		4.3.7	Procedural questions
	4.4	Defences
	4.5	Infringement Proceedings
		4.5.1	Civil Proceeding
		4.5.2	Criminal Proceeding
5.	Loss of Protection
	5.1	Cancellation
		5.1.1	Prior rights
		5.1.2	Non-use
		5.1.3	Cancellation based on the trademark becoming generic or deceptive
		5.1.4	Revocation by reason of dissolution of the holder without successor in title
		5.1.3	Cancellation proceedings
	5.2	Acquiescence

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