The competent department of trademark registration is the State Trademark Office, and the process of applying for trademark registration mainly includes: 1. First, inquire about the registered trademark that you want to apply for, mainly inquiring whether the trademark is the same or similar. If not, you can continue to apply for trademark registration. If the same or similar situation occurs, the trademark applicant needs to change another name and make a new inquiry until there is no same or similar situation; 2. Prepare the trademark application materials. After the trademark inquiry is correct, you need to start preparing the trademark registration application materials; If the company applies, it needs a copy of the company's business license, a trademark pattern and the scope of the goods or services used in the registered trademark (the choice of trademark registration category); When a natural person applies for trademark registration, he needs an individual business license and personal identification documents, as well as a clear choice of trademark registration categories used for registered trademarks; Trademark patterns, etc.; 3. Submit an application for trademark registration and issue a notice of trademark acceptance. If the trademark registration agency handles the trademark, it needs the consultant of the trademark agency to submit the information of the trademark applicant to the Trademark Office; Where the trademark is handled by the applicant himself, the trademark applicant directly submits the materials to the Trademark Office; After receiving the materials submitted by the trademark, the Trademark Office will issue a notice of trademark acceptance within the specified time, indicating that the trademark registration has begun to be accepted; 4. The examination stage of the Trademark Office, which takes about 13 to 15 months, of which the formal examination takes about 1 to 3 months; The substantive review takes about 1 months; 5. Announcement period, which includes preliminary examination announcement and registration announcement. After the substantive examination of the trademark is qualified, it will enter the stage of preliminary examination announcement; The announcement period of the preliminary examination is 3 months, also called the objection period. If the objection or the ruling of objection fails, it will enter the registration announcement period. If the process of trademark registration application is smooth, it will take about one and a half to two years Legal basis: Article 4 of the Trademark Law of the People's Republic of China stipulates that if a natural person, legal person or other organization needs to obtain the exclusive right to use a trademark for its goods or services in production and business activities, it shall apply to the Trademark Office for trademark registration. An application for registration of a malicious trademark that is not intended for use shall be rejected. The provisions of this Law on commodity trademarks shall apply to service trademarks.