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All texts, images, graphics, animation, videos and any data located on this website and also the website as such are protected by Copyright and related rights. The content of these Web pages may not be copied, distributed, altered, or further processed and provided to third parties for commercial purposes.

Any reproduction of the website content or its part in any form, with the exception of printing or downloading to local hard disk for your personal and non-commercial use is prohibited. You may not, except with our express written consent, distribute, share, place on P2P networks, or commercially use any part of the website in any form. Just as well you may not transfer any part of the website in any form or store it on any other website or in other form of electronic system.

The site may also contain content that is marked and protected by copyright of third parties.

If not otherwise specified, all names, symbols, logos and signs published on this website are protected as registered trademarks or as unregistered trademarks in accordance with the law and regulations concerning trademarks in terms of national and international law. All the mentioned registered and unregistered trademarks are the property of the parent company, M.O.C. Ltd. The aforementioned applies in particular to trademarks CHIRANA, SMILE, CHIRANA CHEESE, VENAR, CHIRANA AURA, CHIRANA MUSIC, CHIRANA MEDICAL, CHIRANA-INOX, CHIRANA BALTIC, CHIRANA MEDICARE, CHIRANA-PREMA. Violations of the rights to the copyrighted works, trademarks and trade names can lead to criminal offence.

TRADE MARKS

Protective trademarks have been used since antiquity. The craftsmen used to mark their products with their own signs, in order for them to be associated with the specific quality of their craftsmanship. Today, these signs represent - in the form protective trademarks a substantial value of each global company. The CHIRANA trademarks help doctors, consumers, patients, and other interested parties in more than 30 countries to quickly attribute long tradition and quality to our products.

Our trademarks have had an important guarantee function since the 1950s, and they continue to ensure reliability and value of the original CHIRANA products. Many of today's customers of our company encountered CHIRANA brand as young children sitting in Chirana dental units. There is certainly no need to introduce our town of Stará Turá, which became the heart of the development and production of medical care technology for the whole of Czechoslovakia in the 1950s and 1960s. CHIRANA brand is very well known worldwide, and is traditionally associated with high quality health technology products from the town of Stará Turá since 1965. Our oldest and most famous international trademark CHIRANA has been registered with priority under No. 148028 (WIPO) since 1950

However, the CHIRANA trademarks are not only symbols of our long tradition, they also serve as an effective tool to prevent free-riding on our reputation. In past few years we have noticed several attempts of illegal use of the CHIRANA trademark by other bodies. The offenders have tried to weaken our exclusive branding rights, in the form of filing proposals for cancellation of our registered trademarks and by repeatedly filing trademark applications for similar or even identical trademarks. Some of our competitors (sales and production companies) even used CHIRANA trademark as a part of their company name, on their products, in their marketing presentations, on the Internet, etc. For this reason the controlling company M.O.C. as the owner of the trademarks decided to protect its rights through appropriate legal action as well as through litigation. No one would try to imitate a poor quality brand. Attempts on creating erroneous impression of being connected with our company and attempts to imitate us confirm the big value of the series of CHIRANA trademarks. For us, they most importantly represent a challenge to stop such attempts vigorously. We are pleased to see that our position of CHIRANA trademark owners was acknowledged also by the courts in Slovakia, France and Germany, where we have achieved important victories and have managed to prevent different companies from using our trademarks by means of unfair competition.

The judgement of the District Court of Bratislava1 no 27Cb356/2005 dated 4-7-2011, and the confirming judgment of the County Court of Bratislava1 no 3Cob/506/2011-915 dated 10-10-2012 prohibits our unfair competitor to use the brand name "CHIRANA" in the exercise of his business activities as well as in his Internet presentation and orders him to change his business name so as not to include the protected expression "CHIRANA".

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The decision of the Commercial court in Toulone no 2003R00248 dated 10-12-2003, prohibiting the business organisation selling competitive products in France to use of the trademark "CHIRANA" in all its business documents.

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Our company has Chirana trademarks registered in the whole of Europe and in other countries as community trademarks CTM, national and international trademarks. The list of registered trademarks with the element of CHIRANA owned by our parent company, M.O.C., Ltd. is listed in the following overview:

Registration number	Reproduction of the protective trademark	Trademark territoriality	Date of filing/ Priority	Classes of goods and services
OZ 225019	CHIRANA Medicare	SK - national	9.5.2002	10, 35
OZ 225018	CHIRANA Medical	SK - national	12.4.2002	10, 35
OZ 177040	CHIRANA-PREMA	SK - national	24.5.1996	9, 10, 11, 17, 37, 42
OZ 184710	CHIRANA BALTIC	SK - national	9.4.1996	9, 10, 42
OZ 198404	CHIRANA	SK - national	24.10.1991	9, 10, 17, 37, 42
OZ 198403	CHIRANA	SK - national	24.10.1991	9, 10, 17, 37, 42
OZ 154552	Chirana - inox	SK - national	30.11.1960	10
OZ 184677	The traditional logo associated with Chirana brand (cloverleaf)	SK - national	29.01.1996	9, 10, 42
WIPO - 148028	CHIRANA	international	03.03.1950	9, 10, 11
WIPO - 444315	Chirana	international	22.10.1957	7, 9, 10, 11
WIPO - 148027	The traditional logo associated with Chirana brand (heart and cross)	international	03.03.1950	9, 10, 11
CTM - 003781441	CHIRANA	EU-community	01.05.2004	10, 35, 37
CTM - 008182636	Chirana AURA	EU-community	26.03.2009	10, 16, 35, 37, 44
CTM - 008182586	Chirana CHEESE	EU-community	26.03.2009	10, 16, 35, 37, 44
CTM - 008182586	CHIRANA	EU-community	04.03.2009	1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39, 40, 41, 42, 43, 44, 45

The sole manufacturer of dental units, chairs and dental instruments in the world, entitled by our parent company, M.O.C. to label their products with the trademark CHIRANA is the CHIRANA Medical, Inc. company based in Stará Turá. In the field of dental technology the CHIRANA trademark is used exclusively for the following types of products from our current product portfolio:

SMILE including the combinations SMILE MINI, SMILE CLASSIC, SMILE SYMPATIC, SMILE CHARM, SMILE ELEGANT
CHIRANA CHEESE including the combinations CHIRANA CHEESE Exclusive, CHIRANA CHEESE E, CHIRANA CHEESE Effective, CHIRANA CHEESE L, CHIRANA CHEESE Lift, CHIRANA CHEESE Easy
CHIRANA MUSIC
CHIRANA SK1.01, CHIRANA SK1.08

The sole manufacturer of the respiratory and anaesthesia devices in the world, entitled by our parent company, M.O.C. to label their products with the CHIRANA trademark is the CHIRANA, Ltd. Company based in Stará Turá. In the field of anaesthesia and respiratory technology the CHIRANA trademark is used exclusively for the following products from our current product portfolio:

VENAR including the combinations VENAR MEDIA, VENAR MEDIA New, VENAR LIBERA, VENAR OMEGA, VENAR XENON
CHIRANA AURA including the combinations CHIRANA AURA BASIC, CHIRANA AURA PROFILUNGS
CHIROLOG SV v including the combinations CHIROLOG SV ALFA, CHIROLOG SV BASIC, CHIROLOG SV PROFILUNGS

Please note, that other products of the range of dental, respiratory and anaesthesia technology, manufactured by other that the listed companies bearing CHIRANA trademarks, or referring to the CHIRANA brand, are using this trademark illegally. Such unfair competition practices and misguiding of customers has the character of unlawful action, which can lead to commencement of judicial proceedings and proceedings leading to compensation for direct and indirect damages arisen. Such behaviour may also constitute a criminal offence.

The use of the CHIRANA trademark in any presentation of the products or companies without the consent of the owner of the trademark is not in accordance with the law. We thereby kindly ask you to respect the rule of law referred to above.

Please, do not hesitate to contact us in case you are not sure about the originality of CHIRANA brand products or in the cases where you have noticed the use of CHIRANA trademarks by third parties, and you suspect their unlawful use. We will, however, first and foremost welcome your comments especially in case you simply like our brand CHIRANA and our products...

email: info@moc.sk info@chirana.eu

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Reproduction of the protective trademark

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Date of filing/ Priority

Classes of goods and services