Regarding the relevant provisions of the notice of acceptance of trademark registration applications, the "Implementing Regulations" have been modified, adding the conditions for accepting trademark registration applications and adding the review process for application acceptance (Article 18, Paragraph 2 ). According to the "Notice of the State Administration for Industry and Commerce on Issues Concerning the Implementation of the Revised Trademark Law of the People's Republic of China" (Industrial Trademark No. ﹝2014﹞81), the Trademark Office will The revised "Trademark Law" and "Implementing Regulations" shall apply to the acceptance notice, supplementary notice or non-acceptance notice issued on January 1st. Therefore, the Trademark Office has modified the formal review process for trademark registration applications since May 1, 2014, and the issuance time of the trademark registration application acceptance notice will be longer than the issuance time before the amendment of the Implementation Regulations.

For trademark registration applications submitted in April 2014, if the Trademark Office has issued a notice of acceptance or notice of rejection before May 1, 2014 (excluding May 1), the application before modification will apply The Trademark Law and Implementing Regulations. If a trademark registration application is submitted in April and the Trademark Office issues a notice of acceptance or rejection after May 1, and if a trademark registration application is submitted after May 1, the revised Trademark Law and Implementing Regulations shall apply. 》.

Before the revision of the "Implementation Regulations", the issuance time of the acceptance notice was generally about one month from the date when the Trademark Office received the trademark registration application documents. After the revision of the "Implementing Regulations", there is no trademark registration application that goes through the entire application acceptance process, so the time required is currently difficult to determine.

In addition, due to the technical obstacles that have arisen in the current upgrade of the third phase of the trademark registration and management automation system have not yet been resolved, the review process for application acceptance cannot run smoothly. Trademarks submitted in May 2014 and after May The issuance of the registration application acceptance notice requires trademark registration applicants to wait longer. Trademark registration applicants and trademark agencies are requested to pay attention to check