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Some issues you should pay attention to after trademark transfer

What issues should you pay attention to after trademark transfer? Now I will tell you some specific aspects.

1. During the validity period of the trademark (if you have any questions, please call us for consultation), there is no need to pay any fees to any unit or individual. Within six months before the trademark expires, you can apply to the Trademark Office for renewal by yourself or by entrusting another trademark business unit to do so. After the renewal is successful, the validity period of the trademark will be extended for another ten years. Similarly, within ten years, you no longer need to pay any fees to any unit or individual (if you need us to remind you during the renewal period, you can contact our staff now Please note that we will contact you during the renewal period of the trademark);

2. Please retain the evidence of use of the trademark. In order to avoid unnecessary disputes caused by the trademark not being used for three years, please retain the relevant evidence of use. Several major types of evidence of trademark use are currently common:

1. Large-scale advertising of a trademark is direct and powerful evidence of the use of the trademark, such as through various advertisements in newspapers, magazines, television, radio, etc. The media conducts business promotion. However, government announcements (including the "Trademark Announcement") are not included in this list. Government announcements are publicity only and are not commercial. For example, if an enterprise provides evidence that a local government announced in a local newspaper that its trademark was awarded an honorary title by the local government, such evidence is a government announcement and is not considered evidence of trademark use. When a trademark is involved in a news report in the news media, since it is published in the nature of news, it does not have a commercial nature. Also, because it is not an "advertisement", it is not regarded as evidence of use.

2. If you license others to use a trademark, the actual use by the licensee shall be deemed as the use of the trademark, but the registrant shall provide the above-mentioned proof of use and trademark use license contract to the Trademark Office. Article 19, Paragraph 2, of the TRIPS Agreement clearly stipulates that the use by others under the control of the trademark registrant (mainly refers to the use by the licensee) is consistent with the use required by the trademark registrant to maintain registration.

3. Attaching a trademark to goods or their packaging or wrapping in the country solely for the purpose of export will also be regarded as the use of the trademark in the country.

3. Please keep the original registration certificate and the transfer approval certificate properly. If you accidentally lose any of them, you can promptly apply to the Trademark Office for a reissue of the registration certificate yourself or entrust another trademark business unit;

4. If the address and name of the current trademark holder changes, please submit a change application to the Trademark Office in a timely manner. You can handle the business yourself or entrust another trademark business unit to handle the business;

5. Please use this trademark in accordance with the law. The following are relevant instructions on the management of trademark use under the Trademark Law. Please read it carefully:

Anyone who commits any of the following acts will be ordered by the Trademark Office to correct or revoke his or her registered trademark within a time limit:

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(1) Change the registered trademark on your own initiative;

(2) Change the name, address or other registration matters of the registered trademark on your own initiative;

(3) On your own initiative Transferring a registered trademark;

(4) Stopping use for three consecutive years. If a registered trademark is used to produce shoddy goods, pass them off as good quality, and deceive consumers, the industrial and commercial administration departments at all levels will order corrections within a time limit based on different circumstances, and may notify or impose a fine, or the Trademark Office may revoke the registered trademark.