Article 73 of the "Law on Industrial Property" (1994) gives the definition of a sign and under what conditions it is protectable. According to this Article:
1. Any sign or any combination of signs capable of distinguishing the goods or services of one natural or legal person from those of another natural or legal person and of being represented graphically may serve as a mark for goods or a mark for services
(hereinafter referred to as "mark").
2. A collective trademark is a trademark registered by an industrial or commercial cooperation, or an association or the like organisation of several enterprises, and which is used in order to designate the goods and services of this association. Each enterprise of this association may also simultaneously, have its own trademarks. Particular provisions on collective trademarks are prescribed in specific articles of this Law, but in other cases, the provisions prescribed to trademarks also apply to collective trademarks.
3. The following signs may constitute a mark
- words, including personal names, letters, numerals, abbreviations;
- figurative signs, including devices, shapes of goods or of their packaging;
- combinations of colours and shades of colours;
- any combination of the signs referred to in items (a) to (c) of this Article.
4. Specific types of trademarks such as sound and light signals or other signs may be registered, if they can be graphically represented.
