Trademark review is mainly divided into formal review and substantive review

(1) Trademark registration formal review Trademark formal review (about 3 months), trademark formal review refers to the trademark registration supervisor The agency will check whether the documents and procedures for trademark registration are in compliance with legal requirements. If they are in compliance with legal requirements, the review agency will assign an application number, determine the application date, and issue a "Notice of Acceptance of Trademark Registration Application." It is very important to establish the application date. Since my country's trademark registration adopts the first-to-file principle, once the application date occurs, it becomes the legal basis for determining trademark rights. The application date for trademark registration shall be based on the date when the Trademark Office receives the application documents. The Trademark Office Upon receipt of a trademark application, an acceptance notice will be issued to the application that meets the formal requirements.

(2) Substantive review of trademark registration Substantive review of trademark (completed within 9 months from the date of application). Substantive review of trademark is the task of the trademark registration authority to determine whether the trademark registration application complies with the provisions of the Trademark Law. A series of activities including inspection, data retrieval, analysis and comparison, investigation and research, and decision to give preliminary approval or reject the application.

The preliminary review announcement of a trademark (with a period of 3 months) refers to the decision to allow registration of a trademark registration application that complies with the relevant provisions of the Trademark Law after review. And be announced in the "Trademark Announcement". If no one raises any objection to a preliminary approval trademark within three months from the date of publication of the preliminary approval announcement, the trademark will be registered and a registration announcement will be published at the same time. If no one raises an objection within three months or if the objection raised is found to be untenable, the trademark will be registered and take effect, and a registration certificate will be issued.