1. Submit an application to the European Office for Harmonization in the Internal Market. The authority will accept the trademark application that is deemed to meet the conditions and give the application date and application number.

2. After acceptance, the authorities will conduct a prior trademark search and submit the application to each member state for prior trademark search. Each member state will submit the search report to the Office for Harmonization of the Internal Market within 3 months. .

3. After the authorities receive the search reports from each member state, they will be provided to the applicant for reference together with the search report of this Office.

4. The authorities will not conduct substantive examination of the applied trademark. If the application is initially accepted for registration, it will be announced. The opposition period will be 3 months from the date of announcement. Any natural person or legal person in the 25 member states has the right to If an objection is raised against the trademark, if there is no objection or the objection is not established, the trademark will be registered.

5. If the trademark applied for registration by the EU trademark applicant is rejected (including the rejection of the homologous trademark application due to objections from member states), the applicant can apply to the EU within three months. If a trademark is converted into a separate trademark application in one or several countries, the original filing date and priority date will also be enjoyed.

6. If the applicant’s trademark application for registration is rejected and the applicant is dissatisfied, he may apply to the European Trademark Review Board for review. If there is reason to believe that the European Trademark Review Board’s review ruling violates the Treaty of Rome or *** In the case of identical trademark regulations, an appeal can also be made to the European Court of Justice in Luxembourg.