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A trademark is a word, name, symbol or device that is used in trade with goods to indicate the source of the goods and to distinguish them from the goods of others. Regulating such marks protects against consumer confusion about the source, sponsorship, or approval of goods or services or commercial activities of another. To do so, it makes actionable the use of another's trademark in ways that lead to a "likelihood of confusion". According to the purpose and background of the trademark holder to apply to register trademark, and the specific and individual situations where the trademark right was exercised, if such exercise of the trademark right against the other party goes beyond the purpose or the function of the trademark system, which is to maintain the credit of the trademark user and to protect the benefits of the users, disrupts the fair competition order and the commercial transaction order, causes confusion among users and violates the principle of good faith, such exercise of trademark right, even if it is done in the form of a right exercise, amounts to an abuse of the right to trademark, which shall not be permitted, and according to the above ground to limit the exercise of trademark right, the purpose of the exercise of trademark right, does not necessarily need the subjective condition that the exerciser shall not gain any benefits.