Food is a general summary. The food we understand is generally food that can be eaten and has a sense of taste. The term "food, clothing, housing and transportation" is not used randomly. These four words indeed include various necessary activities for people's daily life. So as one of them, what categories does food belong to?

Through the Bajie Intellectual Property Trademark Encyclopedia, we can understand that the categories of food trademarks are Category 29-2901-meat, non-live poultry, game, gravy, and 2902-non-live aquatic products. ; Class 30-3001-Coffee, coffee substitutes, cocoa, 3002-Tea, tea beverages; and Class 31-3102-Unprocessed cereals and agricultural products (excluding vegetables, seeds), 3105-Unprocessed fruits and Dried fruits etc.

Naturally, each category is not just the sub-category mentioned above. It would be too much to list them all, so if you want to know more, you can check on the Bajie Intellectual Property website. Closer to home, regarding the risks that may be encountered when registering a Hangzhou trademark, what are the ways to reduce the existence of these risks?

First of all, you can go to a professional trademark data query platform for approximate query. Although there is a "blind period" in trademark searches as mentioned before, companies can try their best to go to the official website of the Trademark Office or a professional trademark data query platform to conduct similar searches for trademarks. It is not possible to find the latest trademark 100%, but it has been said before that it has been improved to some extent, so you can try to use effective methods to search for similar trademarks.

The next step is to make the trademark applied for registration distinctive. In order to avoid being similar or identical to others' previously registered trademarks, the trademark must be distinctive when naming it. When designing a trademark, you can use special fonts, or apply for a combination trademark consisting of words, letters, graphics, colors, etc., to enhance the distinctiveness of the trademark.

When registering a combined trademark, regarding the issue of separate registration or combined registration, of course, separate registration has the advantage. When the Trademark Office examines combination trademarks, it examines text, English, patterns, colors and other elements one by one. As long as one element is similar to someone else's previously registered trademark, the entire trademark will be rejected. On the contrary, if you register separately, you can apply the approved ones first, and then classify the rejected trademark categories.

There are also situations where a trademark is opposed. In this case, it is necessary to collect relevant evidence and conduct an in-depth defense with the person who raised the objection to save your trademark. It is not that there is no hope after being opposed. There are usually many trademark companies that can approve trademarks even after objections are raised.