Information required for trademark registration
1. If applying for registration under a company name, a copy of the business license must be provided, and the official seal must be stamped on the copy of the business license;
2. If you apply for registration in your own name, you must provide a copy of your personal ID card and a copy of the individual industrial and commercial household's business license. The copy of the individual industrial and commercial household's business license must be stamped with the official seal;
3. Provide trademark text or drawings. If the color needs to be protected, color drawings are also required;
4. Provide the goods/services to be registered, which can be based on the goods operated by the applicant or the services provided. , to be filled in with reference to the ninth edition of the "International Classification of Goods and Services for Trademark Registration" (Nice Classification) and the "Classification Table of Similar Goods and Services" modified by the Trademark Office based on the above-mentioned international classification table;
5. Provided The "Trademark Agency Power of Attorney" with official seal or signature, which can be obtained from this website; especially note that the address on the "Trademark Agency Power of Attorney" should be exactly the same as the registered address on the business license. What are the ways to apply for trademark registration?
If a natural person, legal person or other organization needs to obtain the exclusive right to trademark for the goods or services it produces, manufactures, processes, selects or distributes, it shall apply to the national industrial and commercial administration in accordance with the law. The Trademark Office of the General Administration (hereinafter referred to as the Trademark Office) files an application for trademark registration.
There are three ways to apply for registration of a commodity trademark or service trademark:
(1) Entrust a nationally recognized trademark agency to handle the application.
(2) Applicants should go directly to the trademark registration hall of the Trademark Office to apply.
(3) Online application.
Foreigners or foreign enterprises must entrust a trademark agency to handle trademark registration matters in China, except for foreigners or foreign enterprises with habitual residence or business offices in China. Things to note when applying for trademark registration
1. All enterprises, institutions and individual businesses that have been approved and registered in accordance with the "Regulations on the Registration and Management of Industrial and Commercial Enterprises" and the "Several Policy Provisions of the State Council on the Non-Agricultural Individual Economy in Urban Areas" can apply Apply for trademark registration.
2. To apply for trademark registration or handle other matters regarding registered trademarks, you should apply to the local county-level industrial and commercial administration bureau and fill in the application form in accordance with regulations. Application form is available from the local industrial and commercial administration bureau.
3. When applying for trademark registration or handling other matters regarding registered trademarks, the application form must be filled out item by item in Chinese characters. The handwriting must be neat and clear, and must not be scrawl.
4. Two or more trademarks may not be entered in one application. The trademark name filled in must be consistent with the attached trademark drawing.
5. Two or more categories of goods shall not be entered in one application. For goods whose types are difficult to determine, additional explanations should be provided.
6. The "product name" filled in must be the common name of the product. If a commodity has two or more common names, additional explanations should be added.
7. The "technical standards" filled in must be the actual implemented standards. If there are no technical standards, additional explanations should be provided.
8. The filled-in "Applicant" must be consistent with the stamp and the name approved on the "Business License", and the economic nature of the applicant should be indicated.
9. The "address" filled in must be the actual address of the applicant, indicating the province (autonomous region, municipality directly under the Central Government), city (county, district), township (town) village name or street number. .
10. The trademark drawing submitted when applying for trademark registration should be clear and clean. The words used in the trademark should be written correctly. If Chinese pinyin is added, it should be spelled according to the phonetic pronunciation of standard Mandarin. The length and width of each trademark image should be no more than ten centimeters and no less than three centimeters. The diameter of the circular trademark pattern shall not be less than five centimeters. The trademark pattern cannot be made of hard, plastic or other items that cannot be pasted. If necessary, it can be replaced by a photo. For trademarks with abstract designs, no text, too simple or complex, additional explanations should be added.
11. When applying for trademark registration or handling other matters regarding registered trademarks, sufficient trademark drawings and relevant documents must be submitted to the Trademark Office and the local industrial and commercial administration bureau in accordance with regulations.
For each trademark registration application, ten trademark drawings must be submitted to the Trademark Office. For trademarks with designated colors, ten colored drawings (or photos) should be submitted together with a black and white ink draft. When applying for change, transfer, cancellation, renewal and other matters of a registered trademark, the "Trademark Registration Certificate" must be returned.
Relevant certificates must be submitted when applying to change the name of the registrant. When applying for renewal or license renewal, five trademark drawings must be submitted to the Trademark Office.
12. Any application document that has been rejected by the Trademark Office and marked with the word "rejected" shall not be used as an application document again.
13. To apply for registration of a drug trademark, the "Drug Manufacturing Enterprise License" and "Drug Trading Enterprise License" issued by the provincial health department (bureau) should be submitted.
14. When applying for registration of cigarette or cigar trademarks, documents proving the approval of the production of cigarettes and cigars by the national competent authorities must be submitted.
15. If a trademark applicant is dissatisfied with the rejection application, he must apply to the Trademark Review and Adjudication Board for review within 15 days of receiving the trademark rejection notice from the Trademark Office. If a trademark applicant has special reasons, he may apply for extension twice, and each extension shall not exceed thirty days.
When applying for reexamination, you should fill in an application for rejection of trademark reexamination and send it to the Trademark Review and Adjudication Board together with the trademark registration application and trademark drawing returned by the Trademark Office.
Reexamination of a rejected trademark can only be conducted on the basis that the original rejected trademark remains unchanged. If you change the name or design of a rejected trademark, you should apply for registration separately.
16. If you are not satisfied with the objection ruling of the Trademark Office, you must apply to the Trademark Review and Adjudication Board for review within 15 days of receiving the objection ruling. If a trademark applicant has special reasons, he may apply for extension twice, and each extension shall not exceed thirty days.
When applying for opposition review, you should fill in one copy of the trademark opposition review application form, together with five trademark drawings and other materials, and send it to the Trademark Review and Adjudication Board.
17. If there is a dispute over a registered trademark, the dispute must be submitted to the Trademark Review and Adjudication Board for ruling within one year from the date of approval of the trademark.
When applying for dispute adjudication, you should fill in one copy of the application for dispute adjudication of a registered trademark, and send it to the Trademark Review and Adjudication Board together with relevant documents.
18. If a trademark registrant is dissatisfied with the Trademark Office’s decision to cancel its registered trademark, it must apply to the Trademark Review and Adjudication Board for review within fifteen days of receiving the notice of cancellation decision. If the trademark registrant has special reasons, he may apply for extension twice, and each extension shall not exceed thirty days.
When applying for reexamination, you should fill out an application for reexamination of a registered trademark and send it to the Trademark Review and Adjudication Board together with five trademark drawings.
19. When applying for trademark registration or handling other matters regarding registered trademarks, fees should be paid in accordance with regulations. Trademark registration process
Trademark registration process 1. Formal review
After formal review, the application procedures are complete and the application documents are filled in as required, the Trademark Office will issue an acceptance notice.
If the application procedures are incomplete or the application documents are not filled in as required, a notice of rejection will be issued and returned, and the application date will not be retained.
If the application procedures are basically complete or the application documents basically comply with the regulations, but if supplements and corrections are needed, the Trademark Office will issue a notice of supplements and corrections to the trademark registration application. If the applicant makes corrections within the time limit and returns it to the Trademark Office, the application date will be retained; if the applicant fails to make corrections or makes corrections beyond the time limit, the Trademark Office will issue a notice of rejection and return it, and the application date will not be retained.
Trademark registration process 2. Substantive examination
After passing the formal examination, the trademark application enters the substantive examination. After substantive examination, any trademark application that complies with the relevant provisions of the Trademark Law will be initially reviewed and approved by the Trademark Office and announced.
If the application is rejected, a rejection notice will be issued to the applicant.
If the Trademark Office believes that the contents of the trademark registration application can be revised, it will issue an examination opinion. If the applicant responds within the time limit, the Trademark Office will continue the examination.
For trademarks that have been preliminarily approved after review, the China Trademark Office will announce them in the "Trademark Announcement".
Within three months from the date of announcement, anyone can object to a trademark initially approved by the China Trademark Office.
If there is no objection or the objection is ruled not to be established, the China Trademark Office will approve the registration, issue a trademark registration certificate, and announce it in the "Trademark Announcement"; if the objection is ruled to be true, the registration will not be approved.
Request for review
If the applicant is dissatisfied with the Trademark Office’s rejection of the trademark registration application during the trademark registration process, he or she may request a review from the Trademark Review and Adjudication Board. The Trademark Review and Adjudication Board will make a final decision on whether to grant registration or not, and notify the applicant in writing. If the party concerned is dissatisfied with the Trademark Office's objection ruling, he or she may request a review from the Trademark Review and Adjudication Board.
The Trademark Review and Adjudication Board will make a final decision and notify the parties in writing.
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