Information required for trademark registration
1. If applying for registration in the name of an enterprise, it shall provide a copy of its business license and affix its official seal to it;
2. To apply for registration in the name of an individual, provide a copy of 1 personal ID card and a copy of the business license of individual industrial and commercial households, which shall be stamped with the official seal;
3. Provide trademark words or patterns, and if color protection is needed, color patterns are also needed;
4. The goods/services to be registered can be filled in according to the goods or services operated by the applicant, with reference to the ninth edition of the International Classification of Goods and Services for Trademark Registration (Nice Classification) and the similar classification of goods and services revised by the Trademark Office according to the above international classification;
5. Provide a power of attorney for trademark agency with official seal or signature, which can be downloaded from this website; In particular, the address in the trademark power of attorney should be exactly the same as the registered address in the business license.
What are the rules for the process and time of trademark registration?
1. Before applying for trademark registration, you can entrust our company or design it yourself. Trademark design should pay attention to the following points: (1) originality, that is, trademark design should be innovative; On the one hand, it is necessary to meet the requirements of distinctiveness, on the other hand, creative trademarks are easy to expand the popularity of goods and quickly occupy the market. (2) The name of a trademark should avoid being associated with the function of the commodity. (3) The design of trademarks should highlight the theme and make a reasonable layout.
2. Trademark inquiry usually refers to the inquiry of trademark information conducted by the trademark registration applicant in order to know whether there is a prior trademark right that may conflict with the trademark applied for registration. It takes a long time for a trademark to apply for registration. If the application for trademark registration is rejected, on the one hand, the trademark registration fee will be lost, on the other hand, it will take longer to reapply for registered trademarks, and it is still unknown whether the reapplication can be approved for registration. Therefore, before applying for a registered trademark, the applicant had better make a trademark inquiry to understand the prior rights. There are two kinds of query services: one is internal query service; The other is 7- 14 working days for government inquiry service.
3. The application documents for trademark registration shall be submitted to the Intellectual Property Department of Hong Kong.
4. After receiving the application materials for trademark registration, the Intellectual Property Department of Hong Kong will give an application number and issue an acceptance notice, which will take about one week.
5. Trademark review is divided into two processes: formal review and substantive review. Formal examination means that before examining the application, the Trademark Registration Office will carefully examine the application and all its attachments to see whether the required parts in the form have been filled in, whether the relevant information is correct and whether the required information is incomplete. If everything is ready, the application procedure will enter the next stage (substantive examination stage). Substantive examination means that the Trademark Registration Office searches the trademark records after checking the shortcomings of the application and making sure that all the information is complete, so as to determine whether other businesses have registered or applied for the registration of the same or similar trademarks for the same or similar goods or services. At the same time, the Trademark Registry will check whether the relevant trademarks meet the registration requirements of the Trade Marks Ordinance. If approved, the application procedure will enter the next stage (gazetting and announcement stage).
6. After the application for announcement is approved by the Trademark Registry, it will be announced in the Hong Kong Intellectual Property Bulletin for a period of three months. If no one raises an objection, the trademark can be successfully registered.
7. If there is no objection to the announcement of the registered trademark or the objection is not established after the ruling, the registration is successful. In general, it takes about 6 months to obtain the registration certificate. After successful registration, the validity period is 10 year, and the fee can be renewed on time in the first half of the expiration.
How to inquire about trademark registration
Before applying for trademark registration, inquiry usually refers to the inquiry about trademark information made by the trademark registration applicant before applying for trademark registration, in order to know whether there is a prior trademark right that may conflict with his trademark registration application. There are two ways to inquire before applying for trademark registration:
1, simple search:? China Trademark Network? Provide free trademark inquiry information, anyone can log in? China Trademark Network? Click? Trademark inquiry? Columns used for query;
2. Government search: Tongda Trademark Service Center is entrusted to conduct trademark search, but a trademark search fee is required.
What should I pay attention to in trademark inquiry?
1. The query report provided by the trademark query sheet does not contain the prior trademark information that has not been entered into the database; Does not contain the contents stipulated in Articles 9, 10, 11 and 12 of the Trademark Law of People's Republic of China (PRC).
2. The information provided in the trademark inquiry table is based on the data stored in the computer. For further information about the query results, please refer to the trademark announcement according to the query report.
3. Reply to the trademark inquiry within the prescribed time limit. In case of holidays, the defense period will be postponed; In case of irresistible emergency (such as computer backup, computer failure, computer virus day, power failure, etc.). ), the period shall be postponed from the date of returning to normal work.
4. It should be noted that Tongda Trademark Service Center provides paid inquiry service, which only provides inquiries about whether there is prior trademark right, and whether it constitutes a conflict with prior rights still needs the applicant's own judgment. In addition, the applicant also needs to judge whether the trademark applied for registration is significant or not, and whether it violates the prohibitive clauses in Articles 9, 10, 11 and 12 of the Trademark Law. Therefore, the inquiry before the application for trademark registration is voluntary, and whether to apply for inquiry is entirely up to the applicant for trademark registration; If there is compensation, the inquiry fee must be paid according to the regulations; For reference, the query results are for reference only, have no legal effect, and cannot be used as the legal basis for trademark registration.
How to check whether a trademark is registered online?
1, the trademark query method is more complicated. Today, let's introduce the basic steps of online inquiry, and you can also entrust the inquiry through the Trademark Office.
2. First, enter China Trademark Network. The government provides four services: approximate trademark inquiry, comprehensive trademark inquiry, trademark status inquiry and error information feedback.
3. We click to enter the comprehensive query of trademarks: users can query a trademark by means of trademark number, trademark and applicant's name.
4. There are five inquiry methods: international classification number, registration number, trademark name and applicant name (in Chinese and English). For asking whether to register, we just need to use them. Commodity name? Come on.
5. We search? Baidu? For example, enter Baidu in the brand name, and then click Query.
6. If the result is found, the trademark has been registered. Then you can only change the trademark.
7. What if I find it? Excuse me! No results were found? Well, congratulations, the trademark has not been registered yet, so go and register it quickly.
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