How do individuals apply for trademark registration? Application route:
1. You can go to the registration hall of the Trademark Office (Beijing) in person.
2. You can entrust a trademark agency to handle it.
Application fee:
Need to pay an official fee of 1000 yuan to the Trademark Office; If you entrust an agent, you need to pay an agency fee of about 600-800 yuan to the agency.
Information required for application:
1, trademark pattern is required;
2, the scope of goods or services used by the registered trademark;
3. Identification documents: A. If the company applies, a copy of the company's business license is required; B. Personal application: A copy of the business license and personal ID card of individual industrial and commercial households is required.
What should individuals pay attention to when applying for trademark registration? 1. Ask about the trademark first. If there is no identical or similar trademark in advance, you can make application documents and submit the application;
2. About 1 month after the application is submitted, the Trademark Office will send you an application acceptance notice within ten working days (this period is called the formal examination stage).
3. After the formal review is completed, it will take about 1 year to enter the substantive review stage.
4. Those who pass the substantive examination shall enter the announcement procedure (this period is 3 months, also called the objection period);
5. When the announcement expires, no one raises any objection. You can get the registration certificate.
Importance of individual trademark application 1. Trademark is a symbol of an enterprise, and it can also be said that it is the embodiment of corporate culture. Represents the image of a company. Protecting trademarks can protect your corporate reputation and corporate image.
Your trademark is also your exclusive right. Protected by intellectual property law. Both registering a trademark and buying a trademark require a certain fee. Protecting one's trademark from infringement by others is actually protecting one's property.
3. The establishment of every trademark and famous brand will become an appreciated commodity. When your company becomes a big company, your trademark will appreciate. This is the expected value of the trademark.
Now, if your trademark is not protected and others infringe it, then produce some other goods. For example, we all know that Wahaha is the trademark of a beverage company. What if someone makes it into shoes, clothes and washing powder? What will happen if someone illegally makes something that is prohibited or exclusively produced by law? I think you can easily see the importance of trademark protection.
How many trademarks can an individual register for a commodity? It is said that Wahaha has registered many trademarks similar to Wahaha, such as "Ha-wa-wa". The same company uses several similar trademarks on the same commodity, which is called "joint trademark". The purpose is to apply for several similar trademarks around a major trademark to prevent others from applying and avoid weakening the major trademark. There is no provision of "joint trademark" in China's Trademark Law. In fact, this practice is unnecessary. After "Wahaha" is registered, if other companies apply for the same kind of goods as "Ha Wa Wa", it will be rejected by the Trademark Office because it constitutes an approximate trademark. If you don't use the "joint trademark", it will also be revoked.
We often drink Coca-Cola, and careful people will find that Coca-Cola has several circled R (registered trademarks) no matter what packaging. We use Microsoft's operating system, and we can also see that Microsoft uses several trademarks such as windows, Microsoft, and floating Windows mode. Coca-Cola and Microsoft did not register similar trademarks, but appeared in the form of "joint trademarks", but registered different trademarks.
Using several trademarks on the same commodity at the same time, with one trademark as the leading factor, will make other trademarks catch up with the main trademark and quickly enhance their popularity and value. It is of course very economical to get several well-known trademarks at the same time for a brand promotion fee. A company has several well-known trademarks at the same time, and intangible assets will certainly double, which is also conducive to the company's brand operation.
Whether individual commodity names can apply for trademark registration depends on the specific circumstances. The trade name refers to the trade name used to distinguish it from other commodities. Commodity names can be divided into general names and special names.
The generic name of goods refers to the general name of goods that are well known to the public, such as TV sets, computers, tables, clothes, etc. Generic names only refer to the names of similar commodities, and cannot be used to distinguish different commodities of similar commodities. Therefore, the common name of a commodity cannot apply for trademark registration.
Commodity specific names refer to the names of specific commodities, such as yellow rice wine, Moutai, 2 1 Jinweita, etc. A specific name of a commodity can be registered as a trademark without violating the law.
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