Trademark online application process
1. Application for "Trademark Digital Certificate"
Trademark applicants holding electronic business licenses: should submit a user registration application. Click "Register Now" to submit the user registration application. After the application is approved, a user review notification will be sent. After receiving the notification, you can use the electronic business license to handle trademark applications.
Trademark applicants who do not hold an electronic business license should first install the "Industrial and Commercial Soft Certificate Client Driver". After the installation is completed, click "Register Now" to submit a user registration application. After the application is approved, a user Please send the download address of the review notice and "Trademark Digital Certificate - Soft Certificate" to the email address filled in when the user registered, click on the download link, and fill in the user name and applicant name correctly to download the soft certificate. The address will be invalid once downloaded. Please make sure to operate on the computer used when submitting the user registration application. For details, please refer to the "Trademark Applicant User Registration Application Process"
Trademark agency: It should be registered with the Trademark Office first. After the registration is completed, you can submit an application in "Register Now". For details, please refer to the "Trademark Agency" Institutional Trademark Digital Certificate Application Process”.
After obtaining the "Trademark Digital Certificate - Hard Certificate" issued by the Trademark Office, you should log in to the homepage of the trademark online service system, download the digital certificate driver and security application control software, and follow the "Trademark Digital Certificate (KEY) ) Installation Guide" for installation. For details, please refer to the "Trademark Digital Certificate (KEY) Installation Guide" and "Trademark Digital Certificate (KEY) Usage Precautions".
2. Make an online application
Trademark applicants holding an electronic business license: Enter the homepage of the trademark online service system, insert the electronic business license into the computer USB port, enter the PIN code, and click "Log in" to enter the system. When logging in for the first time, you need to enter the activation code (the 32-digit string prompted to save when the user registration application is completed) to activate the electronic business license. Read the requirements and follow the instructions.
Trademark applicants who do not hold an electronic business license: Enter the homepage of the trademark online service system. Before logging in to the system for the first time, you need to modify the default PIN code in "PIN Code Modification". After the modification is completed, enter the modification After entering the "PIN code", enter the system. When logging in for the first time, you need to enter the activation code (the 32-digit string prompted to save when the user registration application is completed) to activate the soft certificate. Read the requirements and follow the instructions.
Trademark agency: Enter the homepage of the trademark online service system, insert the hard certificate into the computer USB port, enter the PIN code, and click "Login" to enter the system. You need to enter the activation code when logging in for the first time (prompt when the user registration application is completed) saved 32-bit string) to activate the hard certificate. Read the requirements and follow the instructions.
3. Pay trademark fees online
To submit online trademark applications, trademark applicants and trademark agencies should pay trademark fees in full to the Trademark Office online. For details, please refer to the "Guidelines for Online Trademark Application and Payment".
4. Online trademark application and submission of materials
After submitting the online trademark application, you can query and check the application information through "My Application Management" in "My Account" and confirm Whether the submission is successful or not, the application can be modified or deleted before the fee payment is initiated on the day; after the fee is paid on the day, the content involving changes in fees cannot be modified, and the content that does not involve changes in fees can be modified; the application on the day can be deleted, For the refund details involved, please refer to the "Guidelines for Online Trademark Application and Payment".
Starting from May 1, 2014, there is no need to submit paper documents for application. However, if the applicant requests to supplement the priority and submit an application to correct the trademark application registration matters, he should submit paper documents to the Trademark Office as required. document.