There are two ways to apply for registration of a commodity trademark or a service trademark:

(1) Entrust a nationally recognized trademark agency to handle it.

(2) The applicant goes directly to the trademark registration hall of the Trademark Office.

Third, the processing steps

(1) Where a trademark agency is entrusted, the applicant may voluntarily choose a trademark agency recognized by the state to handle it. All trademark agencies registered in the Trademark Office are published in the column of "Agencies".

(2) If the applicant goes directly to the trademark registration hall of the Trademark Office, the applicant can go through the following steps: pre-application inquiry (optional procedure) → preparation of application documents → submission of application documents in the acceptance window of the trademark registration hall → collection of bar code in the coding window → payment of trademark registration fee in the payment window → issuance of acceptance notice by the Trademark Office in about one month → correction of trademark registration application (optional procedure).

It takes about 1.5 years 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 about 1.5 years to reapply for registered trademarks, and it is still unknown whether the reapplication can be approved for registration.