1. Inquire about the trademark first. If there are no identical or similar trademarks in advance, you can make application documents and submit the application;
2. About one month after the application is submitted, the Trademark Office will issue you an application acceptance notice (this period is called the formal examination stage).
3. After the formal review is completed, it will enter the substantive review stage, which will take about one year to one and a half years.
4. If the substantive examination is qualified, it will enter the announcement procedure (this period is 3 months, also called the objection period);
5. When the announcement expires, no one raises any objection. You can get the registration certificate.
patent application process:
1. confirm the type of patent to be applied.
2. Search for the same type of patent, either independently or by entrusting an agency to search more comprehensively.
3. Prepare the application documents and submit them to the application step.
4. Get the acceptance notice.
5. Preliminary review. (In the case of an application for a patent for invention, the application for a patent for invention must first be examined for confidentiality before the preliminary examination. If it needs to be kept confidential, it shall be handled according to the confidentiality procedure.
6. Publication stage (especially application for invention patent).
7. substantive examination (especially invention patent). To conduct a comprehensive review of whether the patent application is novel, creative, practical and other substantive conditions stipulated by the patent law.
8. authorization stage. The utility model and design can directly enter the authorization stage after passing the examination in the fifth step.