No matter which channel an enterprise or individual purchases a trademark, the trademark transferor and transferee should go to the National Trademark Office to handle the trademark transfer procedures, and the transfer will only take effect after being approved by the Trademark Office. In real life, many trademark transferors and transferees only sign a trademark transfer contract and do not report it to the Trademark Office. This is just a self-transfer of the trademark, which may result in serious administrative penalties and more severe consequences. So what are the procedures for trademark transactions? The editor will introduce it to you.
After the Trademark Office approves the transfer application, it will issue the corresponding transfer notice and transfer certificate notice to the trademark transferor and transferee. Required documents and materials:
1. "Trademark Agency Power of Attorney": If you entrust a trademark agency to act as an agent, you must provide a power of attorney stamped with the seal of the assignee. If transferees outside mainland China want to apply for trademark transfer, they must entrust a trademark agency to do so.
2. "Application Form for Transfer of Registered Trademark": If you entrust an agency to apply for trademark transfer, it will be prepared by the agency and stamped or signed by both the transferor and the transferee.
3. Copies of the transferee’s business license or certification documents of institutions, associations and other organizations with legal person status. If the transferee is outside the mainland, such documents are not required.
Special certification materials:
1. When transferring the transferor’s registered trademark for medicines, medical nutritional foods, medical nutritional drinks and baby food, the transferee needs to provide health administrative information Certification documents from the management department, namely "Drug Manufacturing Enterprise License" or "Pharmaceutical Trading Enterprise License". If the above two certificates have not been obtained, provide the approval document issued by the health administrative department agreeing to establish a pharmaceutical manufacturing or trading enterprise; the transferor If it is used for disinfectant trademarks, the transferee must provide a certificate from the health and epidemic prevention department.
2. When transferring trademarks for cigarettes, cigars and packaged cut tobacco, the transferee must provide documents proving production approval by the national tobacco administration department. Applicants outside mainland China do not require such documents.
3. If an enterprise fails to complete the transfer procedures in time due to merger, separation or merger and the stamp has become invalid, the transferor’s stamp may not be affixed, but a valid certification document from the transferor’s competent authority or a local seal must be provided. Certification documents from the industrial and commercial administration department.
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