Trademarks across the country are uniformly examined in Beijing. Once registered, they are valid and have exclusive rights throughout the country. Therefore, the registration will naturally be submitted to Beijing, and it will be unified and effective if it is checked in the first instance. All provinces and local industrial and commercial bureaus have no right to examine trademarks. Unified examination by the State Trademark Office. You can apply for a trademark or entrust an agency to apply. If you apply for registration by yourself, you should inquire by yourself and submit it in the lobby of the Trademark Office. If the application is entrusted to an agency, the agency will make free inquiries. If you entrust an agency to apply, you should check whether the agency is qualified. The website of the Trademark Office has the name of the filing agency. After applying for trademark registration, the Trademark Office will issue a Notice of Acceptance of Trademark Registration. About 6 months, you can find the detailed information of trademark application on China Trademark Online. About 8 months, if the trademark is found to be rejected during the review, it will be rejected, and a formal Notice of Trademark Rejection will be issued, and the detailed reasons for rejection will be informed. (Note: This step depends on the trademark. If the trademark is not rejected after examination, there will be no such step.) About one year later, the Trademark Office completed the examination and officially announced it on the China Trademark website. About 15 months, the announcement expired and no objection was raised. Then a Trademark Registration Certificate will be issued. At this point, the process of trademark registration is over and the trademark registration is completed. American trademark use certification fee: the trademark registration fee is charged by the Trademark Office, 1 yuan, which is a unified national administrative fee, charged by piece. If the agent is entrusted, the agent is around 8 yuan. Therefore, the total cost of a trademark registration is usually 18 yuan. No other expenses will be incurred midway. Legal objectivity:
Before registering a trademark, compare the trademark to be registered with the trademark that has been registered or announced or accepted by the Trademark Office, and judge whether the trademark is similar or identical to this trademark. First of all, make sure which category you want to register in, 45 categories, and review them separately. Then make an inquiry in the category you want to register. Even if there are identical or similar trademarks, it depends on whether they are designated in the same group. If the groups do not cross, the same trademark can also be registered. If the group is the same, the same trademark, needless to say, can not be registered. Trademark query can only find the trademark information that has been entered into the database, so there is a blank period, or a blind area. Generally, a trademark approximate query is made after 4-6 months of trademark application to enhance the success rate of trademark registration. Article 28 of China's Trademark Law stipulates that if a trademark applied for registration does not conform to the relevant provisions of this law or is the same as or similar to a trademark that has been registered or preliminarily approved by others on the same or similar goods, the Trademark Office will reject the application and will not announce it. Therefore, inquiries should be made before the application, so that the trademark can obtain the trademark certificate as much as possible. At the same time, it usually takes nearly one year for a registered trademark to be accepted by the Trademark Office and announced. If the registered trademark is rejected without inquiry, it will not only waste money, but also waste time and delay the use of the trademark.