Answer 1. What is a trademark objection? Trademark opposition is a legal act that involves raising objections to a trademark that has been preliminarily approved by the Trademark Office of the State Administration for Industry and Commerce and requesting the revocation of the preliminarily approved trademark. 2. What is a trademark dispute? Trademark dispute refers to a legal act in which a trademark registrant disputes that a trademark registered later by others is identical or similar to a trademark previously registered for the same goods (or services) or similar goods (or services). 3. What is the difference between trademark opposition and trademark dispute? Characteristics of trademark objections: 1. Rights protection objections, which believe that the initially approved trademark is identical or similar to a trademark that was previously registered or applied for; 2. Social objections that believe that the preliminary approved trademark violates the prohibition clauses of the Trademark Law or other Regulation. Characteristics of trademark disputes: 1. The applicant must be the registrant of the previously registered trademark; 2. The time for filing the dispute is within one year after the disputed trademark is approved for registration; 3. The approved use scope of the two registered trademarks in dispute must involve The same goods (or services) or similar goods (or services); 4. The approved words, graphics or combinations of the two registered trademarks in dispute are likely to be the same or similar; 5. The disputed trademark is registered in its approved No objection has been raised on the same grounds before, and no ruling has been made. The difference between trademark objection and trademark dispute: 1. The two are essentially different: the essence of trademark dispute is a special protection measure for the previous registrant of a registered trademark; the essence of trademark objection is a social objection to a preliminary approved trademark, including in Objection from the owner or earlier applicant who uses the same or similar registered trademark on the same or similar goods (or services). 2. The contents of the two are different: the content of the dispute is a dispute over rights; while the content of the objection is only an objection to the preliminary approved trademark. 3. The filing time is different: the dispute is filed within one year after the disputed trademark is approved for registration, that is, the trademark registration certificate is issued; while the objection is filed after the preliminary review, that is, within three months of publication in the Trademark Announcement. 4. The application subjects are different: the disputant is specific, that is, it must be the prior registrant; while the opponent is not specific and can be any agency, group, enterprise or individual, including the prior registrant. 5. Different reasons: the dispute must be raised because the disputed trademark is identical or similar to the disputed applicant's trademark on the same or similar goods (or services); in addition to the above reasons, the objection also includes prohibitions that violate the provisions of the Trademark Law terms or other provisions, etc. 6. Different handling agencies: Trademark disputes are filed directly with the Trademark Review and Adjudication Board; trademark objections are filed with the Trademark Office. If you are dissatisfied with the Trademark Office's ruling, you may submit a review to the Trademark Review and Adjudication Board within fifteen days of receiving the notice. 7. No fees are required for trademark objections. However, review fees are required for product disputes. Trademark objection