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Are there any types of trademark that cannot be registered?

The following marks are banned from registration: 

  • Marks that go against standards of morality and /or public policy
  • Terms or words that have a general meaning
  • Marks that contain unauthorized names, symbols or flags of regions, states, nations and international organizations
  • Marks that lack acquired distinctiveness

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