In the whole process of trademark application and registration, the Trademark Office charges a one-time examination fee. If the examined trademark is rejected, the examination fee will not be refunded. The scheme adopted by the low-intelligence society is to create some special registration processes, and even use the name of the Trademark Office to collect fees that do not actually exist, such as trademark publicity fees, registered trademark anti-counterfeiting codes, original certificates, electronic trademarks, etc. This institution has almost become a liar. In response to this chaos, the Trademark Office recently issued a special announcement to explain it. Please keep your eyes open and don't be deceived.
There is no unnecessary charge for the primary type, but the subsequent service fee is abnormally high.
In the process of trademark application, there are two situations after trademark examination. One is that the trademark is rejected or partially rejected, and the other is that the trademark passed the preliminary examination, but it was objected by others during the announcement period. What will happen at this time? Follow-up costs? Reject the review fee or objection defense fee. Some agencies will greatly increase the cost of these follow-up services at this time, which will naturally ensure the survival and profitability of the company.
However, in order to maximize the follow-up costs, in the approximate inquiry stage before trademark application, the agency will not seriously do approximate search for partners, and even suggest submitting trademark applications with low registration success rate or obvious inability to register, and then wait for rejection and charge high examination fees.
Intermediate venture capital injection, paying attention to the number of users.
Are you online? Internet plus? Under the new model, a large number of hot money poured into the trademark agency industry, and a large number of trademark applicants were circled in a short period of time in the form of free services, which led to the widespread crazy and barbaric growth of the Internet.
For this kind of trademark agency, in order to obtain the continuous follow-up of venture capital to complete the so-called angel round, A round, B round, C round and the financing with the ultimate goal of listing, it is necessary to use the free strategy to increase the number of users. Therefore, the focus of such agents is not the success rate of trademark registration, the strategy and the best scheme of brand protection, but only the number of users.
For enterprises or trademark applicants, the huge hidden risk of such agencies is that once there is a capital chain problem, they will go bankrupt instantly, and their trademarks are nowhere to be found. Where will the partners go?
Advanced venture capital injection, and at the same time provide risk guarantee for registration.
This is an upgraded version of the former mechanism. While using venture capital to collect various service fees for free or at a low price, it also uses venture capital to ensure the success rate of trademark registration.
For trademark applicants, the temptation to ensure the success rate of registration is really great, but for these agencies, are they concerned about trademark registration? Mortality? . And use it? In order to make a profit, there must be a huge number of users, so in fact, the purpose is to increase the number of users to achieve continuous financing. Choosing this kind of agent is actually more risky than choosing the former one.
The agency of a certain round of financing blindly uses the expenses of the late applicants to make up for the early or existing operating costs. Let's see who escaped early for such a Ponzi scheme.
On the other hand, if the number of users is large enough, only use? Can you make a profit if you die? The answer is still no, insurance companies can't rely on it alone? Dead difference profit, not to mention that the agency can't reach the scale of the insurance company, is there any? China Insurance Regulatory Commission? Who will guarantee the cost of supervision and compensation?
In a word, trademark registration is free? Be careful. Get something for nothing