The international registration of trademarks in Madrid refers to the trademark registration among the member countries of Madrid Union according to the provisions of madrid agreement concerning the international registration of marks (hereinafter referred to as Madrid Agreement) or Madrid Protocol on International Registration of Trademarks (hereinafter referred to as Madrid Protocol). If it is necessary to register an international trademark, Bajie recommends customers to use the Madrid international registered trademark. The main advantage of Madrid registration is to help users save trouble, effort and money. Let's explain the process of Madrid's international registered trademark. The application for reexamination of trademark rejection shall be handled in accordance with Article 32 of the Trademark Law and the Trademark Review and Adjudication Rules. Time limit for application: The applicant for trademark registration shall apply for reexamination within 15 days after receiving the notice of rejection of trademark objection from the Trademark Office. If it is necessary to extend the period due to force majeure or other legitimate reasons, it may apply for an extension of 30 days before the expiration of the period, and whether or not to grant it shall be decided by the Trademark Review and Adjudication Board. Madrid trademark registration information: (1), copy of current national acceptance notice or registration certificate; (2) Trademark pattern; (3), trademark agency power of attorney; (4) application for international registration. Madrid national registration process: 1. For the basic registration application, the international registration of trademarks should be conducted through Madrid. The trademark of the applicant must be a registered trademark in its country of origin (that is, its own country) or a trademark that has been notified of acceptance. 2. The date of filing an application for international registration of a trademark shall be the date when the Trademark Office receives the application. If the application procedures are complete and the application documents are filled in as required, the application number shall be determined, and the Trademark Office shall send the application documents (in English or French) to the International Bureau within 30 days; Pay the international trademark registration fee to the International Trademark Office. 3. After receiving the application for international registration, the International Bureau of the World Intellectual Property Organization considers that the procedures are complete and the categories and names of goods and services are correctly filled in, so as to register them; If the formalities are incomplete, the registration shall be suspended and the Trademark Office shall be notified. The Trademark Office shall notify the applicant or agent to go through the formalities within 15 days after receiving the notice from the International Bureau; It generally takes about 6 months to issue the international registration certificate of the trademark after the examination meets the requirements of the International Bureau and the application has been or will be submitted to the designated country for examination. The international trademark registration certificate is not a certificate that the trademark has been approved for registration; Its significance lies in that the international registration number and date are the basis for the applicant to carry out a series of activities such as post-trademark designation, change, transfer and renewal. 4. The examination of whether a trademark can be registered in each designated country by the designated country shall be subject to the examination of each designated country. 5. When examining the application for international registration of trademarks, the protecting countries designated by the agreement countries and the protocol countries will decide whether to protect them according to their respective domestic laws and declare their rejection to the International Bureau. According to the agreement, the time limit for declaring rejection is at most one year, that is, if the designated application for protection is not rejected within one year, the application will be automatically protected (according to the provisions of the Protocol, member States can extend the time limit for rejection to 18 months as needed). Remarks: Failure to receive the notice of rejection of trademark protection from the agreement country within 12 months or 18 months from the date of international registration means that the trademark has been automatically protected in the agreement country or the agreement country. With the advantages of its procedural mechanism, Madrid system enables trademark owners to apply for international registration directly to the trademark offices in their own countries or regions, thus protecting their trademarks in many countries of Madrid Union. The international trademark registered in this way is equivalent to the trademark registration application or registration directly filed by the applicant in each designated country or organization.

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