1. Domestic applicants have two ways to apply for trademark registration or handle other trademark matters: one is to handle it by themselves; the other is to entrust a trademark agency registered with the State Intellectual Property Office to handle it. If you want to handle it by yourself, you can submit a trademark registration application online through the online service system and how to submit it; you can also go to the registration hall of the Trademark Office of the State Intellectual Property Office, the Office of the Trademark Office in the Zhongguancun National Independent Innovation Demonstration Zone, or the trademark examination established by the Trademark Office outside Beijing. The cooperation center, or the trademark acceptance window established by the local market supervision department or intellectual property department entrusted by the Trademark Office, handles the matter.

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2. Foreigners or foreign enterprises who apply for trademark registration and handle other trademark matters in China should entrust a trademark agency established in accordance with the law to handle it. However, if there are Exceptions are made for foreigners or foreign enterprises with their habitual residence or place of business.

3. Applicants from Hong Kong, Macau and Taiwan shall follow the procedures for foreign-related applicants.

There is no difference in the review of trademark registration applications between the two methods. The main difference is the slight difference in the way of contact, documents submitted, document submission and delivery methods.