1. Registration preparation:

1. Choice of registration method:

One is to go to the State Trademark Administration (office in Beijing) to apply for trademark registration yourself Matters (China’s Trademark Law allows its citizens to apply directly to the Trademark Office of the State Administration for Industry and Commerce for trademark registration).

Another way is to entrust an experienced trademark agency organization to provide you with trademark agency services. (For example: Hangzhou Junbo Intellectual Property Agency Co., Ltd.) This will save you a lot of time and energy. Of course, the other party will charge corresponding agency fees.

(Attached: The business conditions that a trademark agency organization should have: be able to provide accurate legal advice and effective legal services to clients, and be very familiar with trademark registration applications, use renewals, and transfer licenses, During the application process, you must be familiar with various legal provisions and work flow procedures such as objections, case analysis, reexamination and defense, etc. You must be familiar with the international classification of trademarks and services, accurately use the 45 categories of goods and 8 categories of services, and understand 485 similar categories. The content of the group, grasp the development trends of more than 1 million registered trademarks in my country. Don’t just look at the price factor)

2. Inquiry of trademark registration rights:

Trademark search refers to the search by a trademark registration applicant or its agent to see whether the trademark applied for is identical or similar to the previously owned trademark before filing an application for registration. It is worth noting that although trademark search is not a required procedure for registering a trademark (following the principle of voluntary search), this work can greatly reduce the risks of trademark registration and improve the certainty of trademark registration. During the query process, due to factors such as data processing and trademark application review periods, some previously applied trademarks cannot be entered into the database, so this part of the information cannot be retrieved. In addition, the trademark search and examination work is undertaken by different personnel, and the search personnel and different examiners may have different opinions on the examination. Therefore, the results of the trademark search cannot be regarded as a legal basis and have no legal effect.

Therefore, before registering a trademark, it is very important to find a professional trademark search company or a trademark agency organization with complete trademark search conditions.

3. Preparation of trademark application materials:

(1) If you are applying in the name of a natural person, you need to show your ID card and submit a copy of your identity. If you apply for registration with an enterprise as the applicant, you need to present a copy of the enterprise's "Business License" and a copy of the "Business License" signed by the issuing authority. A completed trademark registration application form with the official seal of the unit and a personal signature.

(2) 10 trademark drawings (for color trademarks of specified colors, 10 colored drawings and 1 black and white ink drawing should be submitted). The trademark pattern provided must be clear and easy to paste, and must be replaced by smooth and durable paper or a photo. The length and width must be no more than 10 cm and less than 5 cm. If the direction of the trademark pattern is unclear, arrows should be used to indicate the top and bottom. When applying for a cigarette or cigar trademark, the image can be as large as the actual one used.

(3) Prepare the corresponding registration fees: registered trademark fees: 1,000 yuan. If you entrust a trademark agency to handle the process, you need to pay an additional trademark agency fee and trademark search fee of about 1,000 yuan.

2. Application for registration

1. Only individuals or groups meeting the following conditions can apply for trademarks in my country:

Applicants for trademark registration must be: Legally established enterprises, public institutions, social groups, individual industrial and commercial individuals, individual partnerships or foreigners or foreign enterprises from countries that have signed agreements with China or participated in international treaties with China or based on the principle of reciprocity.

Meet the above conditions. When you need to obtain the exclusive right to use a trademark, you must submit a trademark registration application to the Trademark Office on a voluntary basis (from November 1, 2001, the my country Trademark Office began to accept applications for registered trademarks from natural persons).

2. File an application according to the classification of goods and services:

Currently, my country’s trademark law implements the International Classification of Goods, which divides more than 10,000 kinds of goods and services into 45 For individual categories, when applying for trademark registration, the category of goods or services for which the trademark is used should be determined according to the classification of the Goods and Services Classification Table. If the same applicant uses the same trademark on different categories of goods, he should apply for registration in different categories according to the commodity classification. This can avoid unfair expansion of the scope of application of trademark rights, and is also conducive to the reviewer's approval and the protection of trademark exclusive rights.

3. Determination of the trademark application date:

Establish the application Date is very important. Since my country's trademark registration adopts the first-to-file principle, once the application date occurs, it becomes the legal basis for determining trademark rights. The application date for trademark registration shall be based on the date when the Trademark Office receives the application document (the smallest unit of date). is '日')

3. Trademark review

Trademark review is the inspection, data retrieval, analysis and comparison carried out by the trademark registration authority to determine whether the trademark registration application complies with the provisions of the trademark law. . Investigate and study and decide on a series of activities such as preliminary approval or rejection of the application.

IV. Preliminary Examination Announcement

Trademark approval refers to the review of the trademark registration application, which complies with the "Trademark Decision to allow registration in accordance with the relevant provisions of the Law. And be announced in the "Trademark Announcement". If no one raises any objection to a preliminary approval trademark within three months from the date of publication of the preliminary approval announcement, the trademark will be registered and a registration announcement will be published at the same time.

5. Registration Announcement

Trademark registration is a trademark legal procedure. The trademark registration applicant submits an application, and after review by the Trademark Office, a preliminary review and announcement will be made. If no one raises an objection within three months or the objection is ruled to be invalid, the trademark will be registered and effective, protected by law, and the trademark registrant will enjoy the trademark. exclusive rights. It takes about one to one and a half years from application to approval of registration for a trademark. Validity Period of a Registered Trademark A registered trademark is valid for ten years, starting from the date of approval of registration. If the registered trademark expires and you need to continue to use it, you can apply for trademark renewal registration.

6. Receive the Trademark Registration Certificate

Through an agent, the agent will send the "Trademark Registration Certificate" to the trademark registrant.

To apply for trademark registration directly, the trademark registrant should go to the Trademark Office to obtain the certificate within three months after receiving the "Notice of Obtaining the Trademark Registration Certificate". At the same time, he should also bring:

(1) Letter of introduction for obtaining the trademark registration certificate;

(2) Identity card and copy of the licensee;

(3) Original copy of business license, the copy should be stamped with the local Seal stamp of the industrial and commercial department;

(4) Notice of receiving the trademark registration certificate;

(5) If the name of the trademark registrant is changed, a change certificate issued by the working department must be attached.

Another: Trademark registration application time: A newly applied trademark generally takes about one year from application to issuance, of which application acceptance and formal review takes about one month, and substantive review takes about four to five days months, the objection period is three months, and the approval announcement to the issuance of the certificate is about three months.

Inquiry hotline: 0571-28979318 Trademark agent Mr. Li