The materials required to register a trademark in Japan are:

1. Trademark applicant information. A trademark applicant can be a legal person or a natural person. Legal persons need to submit a copy of their business license, and natural persons need to submit a copy of their ID card or passport. At the same time, it is important to complete the applicant form, including the applicant’s name, address and nationality.

2. Information related to the trademark itself. Including the Chinese (foreign) name of the trademark, a clear trademark pattern (the color trademark should be indicated), the category of goods or services used by the trademark, etc.

After preparing the above information, you can submit the application materials for trademark registration to the Japanese Trademark Registration Administration (Japan Patent Office) and enter the Japanese trademark registration procedure.

1. Submit the application. When the trademark application materials are prepared and the Japanese trademark registration application form is filled out as required, the form and trademark application materials can be compiled and submitted to the Japan Patent Office to enter the preliminary examination stage.

2. Preliminary examination The preliminary examination of a Japanese trademark is mainly to examine whether the trademark application complies with the requirements of Japanese trademark regulations and whether it is duplicated or similar to an existing trademark. It can also be understood as a compliance check for trademark applications.

3. Trademark Publicity When the applied Japanese trademark passes the preliminary review and is typed and printed, it can enter the trademark publicity stage. Like trademark applications in other countries and regions around the world, the publicity stage is to announce the trademark to the public to confirm that it does not infringe the rights of any existing trademark or designation holder. If there are no objections during the publicity stage, the probability of applying for a formal trademark certificate will be greatly increased.

4. Get the certificate. When there is no objection to the applied Japanese trademark during the publicity period, the Japan Patent Office will officially approve the trademark as a registered trademark and issue a Japanese trademark registration certificate to the trademark applicant to indicate that the trademark is officially protected by law.