First, the risk of blind inspection period.
The period from the applicant's application for a registered trademark to the entry of the trademark office into the computer is called the trademark inquiry blind period, because the trademark information during this period is unknown and cannot be retrieved. Therefore, if you happen to encounter this blind spot, it will be difficult to register the trademark successfully.
Second, the examiner's subjective judgment
There will be differences in subjective judgments of an object between people, and so will the examination of trademarks. Each examiner's qualification experience is different, so there may be many kinds of cognition about the same trademark. Maybe one examiner thinks that the trademark is similar, and the other won't, so when the trademark is rejected because of similarity, you can try to re-examine it, and there will still be a chance.
Three. Identical or similar trademarks
The function of trademarks is to distinguish the sources of the same or similar goods or services. If there are similar trademarks on the same or similar goods or services, it will easily cause confusion or misunderstanding among consumers. Therefore, if the applied trademark is the same as or similar to the previous trademark, the trademark registration will also fail.
4. The trademark is questioned.
There will be a three-month objection period after the announcement of the preliminary examination of trademarks is issued. If someone thinks that the trademark will have any adverse effect on other trademarks or harm the interests of others, and raises an objection within the objection period, the applicant needs to make an objection defense. If the defense fails, the registration of the trademark will fail.
5. It does not conform to the provisions of the Trademark Law.
If the trademark is not obvious, or it will have adverse effects, and other trademark laws prohibit the use of registered graphics and characters, it will lead to the failure of trademark registration. Trademark registration is actually a very simple matter, but it needs strong professionalism. If you are not careful, the trademark registration may fail. Therefore, it is suggested to entrust a trademark agency to handle it, which can reduce the risk of trademark registration and improve the success rate of trademark registration.