In general, a registered trademark can get a trademark certificate within 15 months. Find an agency to apply for a trademark. After preparing all the materials and paying all the money, the agency submits the trademark application, and the Trademark Office issues the trademark registration number in about 3 days, and issues the acceptance notice in about 2-6 months. It takes 9- 12 months (in most cases) to pass the examination and enter the announcement period through the preliminary examination; If not, a rejection notice will be issued. The announcement period is 3 months, so it takes about 15 months.

If 9- 12 months after the application, it is not a notice of preliminary examination issued by the state, but a notice of rejection, you can choose to request the State Trademark Review and Adjudication Board for review within 15 days. The review period is about 7- 12 months, and a decision to reject the review will be issued. If the examination is passed, the trademark will enter the announcement period. It means that once rejected, the trademark registration procedure will be extended for at least one year.

Article 31 of the Trademark Law requires that if the trademark applied for registration is identical with or similar to a trademark that has been applied for registration or basically approved by others on the same kind of goods or similar goods, the Trademark Office will reject the appeal application and will not announce it. Trademark registration follows the standard of prior application, so before applying for registered trademark, we must do a good job in trademark search to prevent the trademark applied for registration from being the same as or similar to other trademarks applied for earlier. If the trademark is rejected for reexamination because it is identical or similar, the time for trademark registration may be seriously delayed.

Article 10 of the Trademark Law requires: national symbols, names, military symbols, international economic organizations, the Red Cross and other symbols; Foreign names that contain the Chinese nation's non-discriminatory, deceptive, harmful to socialist social morality and customs, have expansion propaganda planning and negative influence, and are well known to the public at or above the county level cannot be used as trademarks. Article 11 Requirements: The generic name, pattern, model and specification of the product or service item, the marks describing the characteristics of the product or service item, and the marks lacking significant differences shall not be applied for a trademark.

At every link, the applied trademark is questioned by the trademark. If you don't produce relatively direct evidence immediately after being questioned, your application for registered trademark will be rejected and you will not apply for registration. Therefore, if you want to speed up trademark registration, you must reply immediately after being questioned. It is best to do a good job of searching before applying for a registered trademark to prevent the applied registered trademark from being questioned.