The difficulty of trademark registration is like the four masters and apprentices of Monk Tang. They will always encounter various difficulties on the road. Only by experiencing ninety-nine and eighty-one difficulties can "cultivation be achieved." Rejection of registration is like a death sentence for an application. Have you ever concluded why a trademark is rejected?

There may be many reasons why a trademark registration application is rejected, the most important ones are as follows:

① Failure to meet the trademark registration conditions

Trademark The law stipulates that signs lacking distinctiveness shall not be registered as trademarks.

For example: Numbers, letters, lines, ordinary geometric figures, etc. cannot be registered as trademarks.

②The trademark has been applied for registration

The "Trademark Law" stipulates that "two or more trademark registration applicants shall use the same trademark for the same kind of goods or similar goods." If a trademark or a similar trademark is applied for registration, the trademark applied for first will be initially reviewed and announced. "

When the trademark applied for has been successfully registered by the predecessor, the trademark application has been unable to be approved, so the Trademark Office will The trademark application was rejected and the application for registration was rejected.

For example: A successfully applied for the registered trademark "a" on January 1, 2017, and B filed a registration application on October 1, 2017, but the trademark registered in the application is the same as the trademark registered by A. a" are the same, then the Trademark Office examiner will reject the trademark application submitted by B based on the "first to file" principle and will not register it.

③The applied trademark has the risk of being similar to the trademark

④The registered trademark is a prohibited trademark

The National Trademark Office stipulates that some signs cannot be used as trademarks Registration, such as the national flag, national emblem, military flag, signs with ethnic discrimination, signs harmful to social morals, etc., cannot be registered as trademarks.

Before registering a trademark, you should conduct a trademark search first to improve the success rate of trademark registration