Trademark renewal means that if the registered trademark owner needs to continue to use the trademark when the validity period of the trademark registration expires, the trademark registrant should go through certain renewal procedures in accordance with the law within one year before the validity period, and extend The validity period of its registered trademark, if it cannot be processed during this period, can be given a 6-month extension period. The validity period of each renewal registration is 10 years, calculated from the day after the expiration of the previous validity period of the trademark. If the trademark is renewed, the Trademark Office will automatically cancel its registered trademark.

What materials are needed to apply for trademark renewal?

Entrust a trademark agency registered with the Trademark Office to handle the matter. Or the applicant can go directly to the Nanjing Trademark Registration Hall of the Trademark Office to apply. In addition, applicants can register and apply online through the China Trademark Network.

The application documents that should be submitted are:

1. "Application for Trademark Renewal Registration"

2. The applicant's identity document (copy )

3. If you entrust an agent to submit the "Agency Letter", if you apply directly in the acceptance hall, submit a copy of the person in charge of the ID card

4. A copy of the registration certificate

5. If the application documents are in a foreign language, a Chinese translation signed and confirmed by a translation agency should also be provided

What are the precautions for applying for trademark renewal?

1. The trademark registrant should apply for renewal of registration within six months before the expiration of the trademark, or apply for renewal of registration within six months after the expiration of the trademark, that is, within the extension period, but the delay shall be paid fee. If no application is made within the extension period, the registered trademark will be cancelled.

2. The category of trademark renewal should be filled in according to the category of the International Classification of Goods. If the originally approved goods now belong to different categories of the International Classification, but they all need to be renewed, the renewal registration should be filled in separately according to the category. Exhibition application form, and register the category in which the original registration number is retained, and the remaining application numbers are assigned.

3. If the renewal application cannot be approved due to other reasons, the Trademark Office will notify the applicant in writing by mail according to the address filled in the application form.

4. If the applicant entrusts a trademark agency to handle the renewal application, the Trademark Office will not directly have any correspondence with the applicant, and all documents will be sent to the trademark agency.

5. If the applicant entrusts a trademark agency to handle the renewal application, the Trademark Office will not directly have any correspondence with the applicant, and all documents will be sent to the trademark agency.

6. If the original approved trademark pattern contains content that cannot be used as a trademark but the trademark is difficult to separate, you should declare that you have given up the exclusive right to this part; if the trademark name is not in the trademark pattern, if the name does not require the right to be used as a trademark, The exclusive right should be waived; if it is required to be retained, the text of the trademark name can be written into the periphery of the graphic, or the text can be renewed separately.

7. To renew a premature trademark, the original "Trademark Registration Certificate" must be submitted together with 5 copies of the trademark drawings. If the name of an administrative division at or above the county level has been registered as a trademark, proof of the use of the trademark must be submitted.