With the gradual awakening of enterprises' awareness of intellectual property rights, many enterprises will appeal for registered trademarks in the process of business development. However, before trademark registration, trademark inquiry has become an important part in the application process. What are the reasons? What specific operational methods do enterprises have for trademark registration inquiry?

next, this article will explain this.

1. Advantages of conducting trademark inquiry in advance

The so-called trademark inquiry refers to the procedure that an applicant for trademark registration inquires about trademark registration in person or by entrusting a trademark agent to find out whether the trademark he intends to apply for registration is the same as or similar to the trademark already registered or being registered by others.

Generally speaking, the advantages of making an inquiry about trademark registration in advance are as follows:

(1) Find out the obstacles of enterprise trademark registration and improve the probability of successful trademark registration. This is because the enterprise can know whether the trademark registration is the same or similar by inquiring the trademark it wants to register in advance. If such a situation occurs, the enterprise can modify or adjust the trademark to be registered at the first time to make the trademark registration meet the application requirements.

(2) Help enterprises to find out whether trademarks can be used safely. At present, registered trademarks need to comply with the relevant provisions of the Trademark Law. Therefore, enterprises can avoid the risk of infringement of registered trademarks of others by inquiring about trademark registration, thus ensuring that registered trademarks are carried out more safely and orderly.

(3) Help enterprises understand the progress of trademark registration application. In fact, timely trademark inquiry can also grasp the latest progress of trademark registration, so that applicants can know fairly well about trademark registration and trademark use. That is to say, although trademark inquiry has no legal effect, enterprises can't ignore the importance of trademark registration inquiry.

2. Methods for inquiring about trademark registration

At present, there are three main ways for trademark registration applicants to inquire about trademark registration:

(1) Inquire through China Trademark Network (website:). The businesses it can query include: approximate query of trademarks, comprehensive query of trademarks (query methods include: international classification number, application/registration number, trademark name and applicant name), trademark status query, trademark announcement query, error information feedback and commodity/service items.

(2) Go to the Trademark Office for inquiry. With this inquiry method, the applicant needs to go to the inquiry window to get the Trademark Inquiry Form, fill it out correctly and submit it to the window for inquiry.

(3) entrust an agency to make inquiries. That is, the registered trademark is entrusted to the trademark agency to inquire. Usually, the enterprise only needs to give the trademark name to the agency, and the agency can professionally complete the trademark inquiry related work.

The above are the benefits of trademark inquiry in advance and the ways and means of trademark registration inquiry. Before trademark registration, it is necessary for enterprises to know the above contents in detail, so as to ensure that the professional trademark inquiry method is adopted in the process of trademark registration to promote the professional and efficient trademark registration!