Since February 2007, natural persons cannot apply for registered trademarks based on their ID cards alone.

However, a natural person who is the person in charge of an individual industrial and commercial household can apply for a registered trademark in his or her own name with the individual industrial and commercial household's business license and personal ID card document.

The main differences between an individual applying for a trademark with a sole proprietorship business license and a company applying for a registered trademark with a company business license are:

1. Name of the applicant: personal ID card and sole proprietorship The name of the trademark applicant for license application can be an individual or the name of an individual industrial and commercial household; the name of the company business license application can only be the name of the company, not the name of the legal representative.

2. Product application restrictions: Applications for personal ID cards and self-employed business licenses are subject to business scope restrictions; applications in the name of a company are not subject to experience scope applications.

For more detailed consultation, please call: 0575-85128804

Wuzhou Trademark Shaoxing Branch, Li Lihong