Legal analysis: A trademark agent refers to a person who is qualified to accept the entrustment of an applicant for trademark registration (that is, any unit or individual who wants to apply for trademark registration) or a trademark registrant (that is, a unit or individual who already owns a registered trademark) to apply for trademark registration on behalf of the client within the scope of entrustment, and to help the client investigate and deal with trademark infringement cases or other matters related to trademark registration application.

Legal basis: Article 18 of the Trademark Law of the People's Republic of China

You can apply for trademark registration or handle other trademark matters by yourself or entrust a legally established trademark agency.

if a foreigner or foreign enterprise applies for trademark registration and handles other trademark matters in China, it shall entrust a legally established trademark agency to handle it.

article 19 a trademark agency shall follow the principle of good faith, abide by laws and administrative regulations, and handle trademark registration applications or other trademark matters as entrusted by the principal; He shall be obliged to keep confidential the business secrets of the principal he knows in the process of agency.

if the trademark that the client applies for registration may be prohibited by this law, the trademark agency shall clearly inform the client.

if a trademark agency knows or should know that a trademark applied for registration by a client falls under the circumstances specified in Articles 4, 15 and 32 of this Law, it shall not accept its entrustment.

a trademark agency shall not apply for the registration of other trademarks except for its agency services.