1. Hong Kong trademark inquiry is a highly professional job, but it is not a necessary procedure for trademark registration application. An applicant for trademark registration may entrust an agent of a trademark agency to inquire on his behalf, so that the results will be more accurate and better suggestions will be made for trademark registration.
2. For the query of trademark registration in Hong Kong, the applicant can also entrust the organization of the Trademark Office in the host country to report the query to the Trademark Affairs Center, and the query result is more accurate.
3. When inquiring about trademark registration in Hong Kong, trademark analysis refers to whether the applicant for trademark registration or the agent of the agency has violated the provisions of the local trademark law in Hong Kong prohibiting the application for trademark registration or the use of trademarks before applying for registration.
Inquiring about the application for trademark registration in Hong Kong is not a necessary procedure for trademark registration, and it does not depend on the prior right information under review, so the results obtained have no legal effect. For reference only, the approval or rejection of the application by the Hong Kong Local Trademark Office is not based on this.
After trademark inquiry, if it is confirmed that the applied trademarks are not similar, the trademark registration process in Hong Kong can be started. The trademark registration process in Hong Kong is as follows:
1. Pre-application preparation: Prepare the documents required to apply for a Hong Kong trademark, including: trademark application form, trademark pattern applied for registration, identification documents of the trademark applicant, payment documents, etc. The documents required for these applications must be in Chinese or Portuguese. If they are not in other languages, such as Chinese or Portuguese, the translated versions shall be submitted after translation by the translation agency.
3. Submission of application: The trademark applicant or his entrusted agent shall submit the prepared application documents to the Intellectual Property Department of Hong Kong for trademark registration.
4. Formal examination: After confirming the receipt of the application documents, the Intellectual Property Department of Hong Kong will issue an acceptance notice to the applicant and conduct formal examination of the registered trademark.
5. Substantive examination: In the process of formal examination, if there is no problem, then the Intellectual Property Department of Hong Kong will send an examiner to conduct a more in-depth examination of the registered trademark. This review process is called substantive review.
6. Announcement: In the process of substantive examination, if the examiner has no reason to reject the application for trademark registration, the examination result of the registered trademark will be published on the official platform of Hong Kong Intellectual Property Department.
7. Approval of registration: If no objection to the registered trademark is raised or resolved before the expiration of the announcement period, the registered trademark will be approved and registered by the Intellectual Property Department of Hong Kong, and an announcement will be made.
8. Issuance of trademark registration certificate: After the applicant receives the notice of approval of registration from the Hong Kong Intellectual Property Department, the Hong Kong Intellectual Property Department will issue a trademark registration certificate to the applicant in the next few days.
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Trademark registration procedures in Hong Kong