If a cooperative needs to obtain exclusive trademark rights for the goods or services it produces, manufactures, processes, selects or distributes, it shall submit a trademark application to the Trademark Office of the State Administration for Industry and Commerce (hereinafter referred to as the Trademark Office) in accordance with the law. Registration application. Currently, there are two ways to handle various trademark registration matters: one is to go directly to the Trademark Office; the other is to entrust a nationally recognized trademark agency to act as an agent. If the application is handled directly at the Trademark Office, the applicant should submit a copy of the person's ID card in addition to other documents that should be submitted; if the application is entrusted to a trademark agency, the applicant should submit the entrusted trademark in addition to other documents that should be submitted. A power of attorney for an agency to handle trademark registration matters. If a cooperative directly handles trademark registration matters, it should go to the trademark registration hall of the Trademark Office. The trademark registration procedures are complicated and take a long time. Therefore, it is best to find a professional agency to register a trademark for a cooperative. Professional guidance can reduce registration risks and increase the success rate of trademark registration.

Documents required for trademark registration application: trademark drawing, scope of goods or services to be used for registered trademark, copy of cooperative business license.

Trademark registration application procedure: First search the trademark. If there is no identical or similar one before, you can prepare application documents and submit the application. One to three months after the application is submitted, the Trademark Office will issue an application acceptance notice (this stage is called the formal examination stage). After the formal review is completed, it enters the substantive review stage, which takes about one and a half years. If the substantive examination is passed, the announcement process will be entered; if no objection is raised after the announcement period, the Trademark Office will approve the registration and issue a trademark registration certificate.

According to the "Trademark Law", the validity period of a registered trademark is 10 years, calculated from the date of approval. You can renew and pay the renewal fee 6 months before the expiration of the validity period. Each renewal is still valid for 10 years. There is no limit to the number of renewals. If the application is not submitted within this period, a 6-month extension period may be granted. If the renewal of registration is not submitted within the extension period, the Trademark Office will cancel the registered trademark and make an announcement.

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