Article 4 Where a registered trademark needs to be used continuously after its expiration, the trademark registrant shall go through the renewal procedures in accordance with the regulations within 12 months before the expiration; If it fails to be handled during this period, a six-month extension period may be granted. The validity period of each renewal registration is ten years, counting from the day after the last expiration of the trademark. If the renewal formalities are not completed at the expiration of the period, the registered trademark shall be cancelled. Therefore, the validity period is ten years, and it can be renewed within 12 months before the expiration date. If you don't renew it within these 12 months, the Trademark Office will give you a six-month grace period (which is more than the 5 yuan official fee). If it is not renewed within the grace period, the trademark will be invalid. The normal official fee is 2, and the official fee during the grace period is 25. The general agency fee is between 5 and 1. So the normal renewal fee is 25~3, and the extension fee is 3~35.
what is trademark renewal?
refers to the system in which the owner of a registered trademark goes through certain procedures to extend the validity period of his registered trademark within a period of ten years after the expiration of the validity period of the trademark registration. If the registered trademark expires and needs to be used continuously, the trademark registrant shall go through the renewal procedures in accordance with the regulations within twelve months before the expiration; If it fails to be handled during this period, a six-month extension period may be granted. The validity period of each renewal registration is ten years, counting from the day after the last expiration of the trademark. If the renewal formalities are not completed at the expiration of the period, the registered trademark shall be cancelled.
what are the consequences of not renewing a trademark?
1. If this trademark is registered again by others, you can't continue to use it; If it is not registered by others, this trademark can no longer be used as a registered trademark, that is, when you use this trademark again in the future, you can't mark it on the trademark? Mark or "registered trademark". 2. The brand influence gained by years of promotion and publicity of this trademark no longer belongs to you, but will be easily taken away by others. 3. The intangible assets represented by this registered trademark are zeroed.
a private trademark agency, not a state agency! ① It's only a few hundred dollars to go to China Trademark Network for self-service renewal, and the quotations of these private organizations are outrageous. Secondly, whether the trademark has expired or not, you can check it through a self-service search APP. Don't easily believe what these private organizations say about the expiration of the trademark.