1. Selection of registration method: apply for trademark registration at the State Trademark Office (the Trademark Law allows citizens to apply for trademark registration directly with the Trademark Office). You can also entrust a trademark agency to apply for it. The other party charges the corresponding agency fee.
2. Inquiry about the prior registration right of a trademark: refers to the inquiry about whether the applied trademark is the same as or similar to the prior right trademark before the trademark applicant or agent files an application. Following the principle of voluntary inquiry, this work can greatly reduce the risk of trademark registration and improve the certainty of registration. In the query, due to the influence of data processing and trademark application review period, some previously applied trademarks cannot enter the database, so it is impossible to query and retrieve this information. In addition, the inquiry and review are undertaken by different personnel, and there may be different opinions between the inquirer and different reviewers. Therefore, the trademark query results cannot be used as a legal basis and have no legal effect. Therefore, it is very important to find a professional trademark inquiry company or an agency with perfect trademark inquiry conditions before registration.
3. Preparation of trademark application materials:
(1) Apply in the name of a natural person, show your ID card and submit a copy of your ID card. If the enterprise is the applicant, it shall submit a copy of the business license of the enterprise and a copy of the business license provided and signed by the issuing authority. A complete application for trademark registration, stamped with the official seal of the unit and personal signature.
(2) 10 trademark pattern (for color trademarks with specified colors, 10 color pattern and 1 black and white ink draft shall be submitted). The pattern provided must be clear and easy to stick, and replaced by bright and durable paper or photos, with the length and width not exceeding 10 cm and not less than 5 cm. If the direction of the pattern is unclear, use arrows to indicate the top and bottom. When applying for trademarks of cigarettes and cigars, the design can be as big as the actual use.
(3) Registration fee: Registration fee: 1 0,000 yuan. If you entrust an agent, you need a trademark agency fee of about 1 1,000 yuan.
Second, the trademark registration procedures
1. Only individuals or groups that meet the following conditions can apply for trademark registration in China: the applicant for trademark registration must be an enterprise, institution, social organization, individual industrial and commercial households, individuals, foreigners or foreign enterprises of the country that has signed an agreement with China, acceded to international treaties with China or handled it according to the principle of reciprocity. Where the exclusive right to use a trademark is needed, it shall be granted on a voluntary basis. Apply to the Trademark Office for trademark registration (from 200 1, 1 1, China's Trademark Office began to accept applications from natural persons for trademark registration).
2. Application by classification of goods and services: At present, China's trademark law implements international classification of goods, and divides 1 10,000 kinds of goods and services into 45 categories, including 34 categories of goods and services 1 1. When applying for trademark registration, the category of goods or services using the trademark shall be determined according to the classification of goods and services. Where the same applicant uses the same trademark on different categories of goods, it shall apply for registration in different categories according to the classification of goods. This can avoid improper expansion of the scope of application of trademark rights, and is also conducive to the examination and approval of examiners and the protection of trademark exclusive rights.
3. Determination of the date of trademark application: It is very important to determine the date of application. As the principle of first application is adopted in trademark registration in China, once the application date occurs, it will become the legal basis for determining the trademark right. The date of application for trademark registration shall be the date when the Trademark Office receives the application documents (the minimum date unit is days).
Third, trademark fees.
1) There is no annual fee for trademarks (there is no need to pay money every year), only patents. There are no other fees (except renewal registration) during the validity period of the trademark.
The period of validity of a registered trademark is ten years, counting from the date of approval of registration.
(3) Where it is necessary to continue to use a registered trademark after its expiration, it shall apply for renewal of registration within six months before its expiration; Failing to apply within this time limit, a grace period of 6 months may be granted. If no application is made at the expiration of the exhibition period, its registered trademark shall be cancelled.
4) Each renewal registration is valid for ten years. After the renewal of registration is approved, it shall be announced.
5) Registration renewal fee is 2000 yuan/time.