1. Can an individual apply for a registered trademark?
Sure! Article 4 of the Trademark Law stipulates that "a natural person engaged in the production, manufacture, processing, selection, distribution or provision of services of commodities who needs to obtain the exclusive right to use a trademark shall apply to the Trademark Office for trademark registration".
Second, what materials do individuals need to apply for trademarks?
1. Individual industrial and commercial households: apply for trademark registration in the name of the person in charge of license registration or the name registered in the business license as the applicant. Required materials: ID card and business license of the person in charge.
2. Individual partnership: apply in the name of all partners. Need trademark registration materials: partner ID card, business license and partnership agreement.
3. Rural contracted business households: apply for trademark registration in the name of the contractor. Required materials: the contractor's ID card; Contract.
4. Other natural persons authorized to engage in business activities according to law: required materials: the identity card of the operator and the registration documents issued by the relevant administrative departments.
Third, the process of individual trademark application?
1. Go through the application procedures and submit the application materials to the Trademark Office. After the application documents are ready to be submitted to the Trademark Office, you can get the receipt of the list submitted by the Trademark Office on the same day. The receipt of the list bears the seal of the "receipt" of the Trademark Office through the center and the date of receipt, which proves that the Trademark Office has received the relevant application documents;
2. The Trademark Office will issue an acceptance notice 1-3 months after receiving the application documents, which will prove that the trademark has passed the formal examination and entered the substantive examination stage;
3. After the substantive examination is completed about one year after the notification of acceptance is issued, the Trademark Office will issue a preliminary examination and approval announcement for the trademark that has passed the substantive examination for a period of three months;
4. If there is no objection at the expiration of the preliminary examination and approval announcement, the Trademark Office will issue a registration announcement to prove that the trademark has been approved. The applicant has obtained the exclusive right to use the trademark;
You can get the trademark registration certificate about one month from the date of announcement.
The above is the process and materials needed for an individual to apply for a trademark. When we apply for trademark registration, because a trademark belongs to a kind of intellectual property, we need to prepare the corresponding application materials for trademark registration in the application process, and we also need to pay attention to the factors that may lead to failure. But because of the difficulty of trademark registration, we suggest that you can choose intellectual property rights to handle it.
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