Does the change of company name affect the trademark?
You can use it, but you have to change the trademark to use it. The process of trademark change is as follows: Trademark change According to Article 41 of the current Trademark Law: "If a registered trademark changes the name, address or other registered items of the registrant, an application for change shall be filed." Trademark change refers to the change of the registrant, registered address or other matters of a registered trademark. Where an applicant changes its name, address or agent, or deletes a designated commodity, it may go through the formalities of change with the Trademark Office. If you want to change the words and graphics of a registered trademark, you must apply for trademark registration again, and it shall be treated as a newly applied trademark. It cannot be called trademark change. There are two ways to apply for changing the name, address or other registered items of a trademark registrant: (1) Entrust it to a trademark agency filed with the Trademark Office. (2) The applicant shall go directly to the Trademark Registration Hall of the Trademark Office (the applicant of Zhongguancun National Independent Innovation Demonstration Zone may also go to the Trademark Office of Zhongguancun National Independent Innovation Demonstration Zone in the administrative office hall of Haidian Branch of Beijing Administration for Industry and Commerce, No.9 Daozuomiao, Haidian District, Beijing). There are four file formats for file format change: application for changing the name/address of trademark applicant/registrant, application for deleting goods/services, application for changing trademark agent and application for correcting trademark application/registered items. The applicant should fill in the corresponding application form according to the specific matters handled: 1. Where it is necessary to change the name or address, an Application Form for Change of Name/Address of Trademark Applicant/Registrant shall be filled in. If a trademark registrant or applicant applies for changing its name and address at the same time, it is enough to fill in an application form; 2. If it is necessary to delete the registered trademark or the goods or services in the registration application, an application form for deleting the goods/services shall be filled in, but the goods or services cannot be restricted or modified; 3. If a trademark agent needs to be replaced, an Application Form for Trademark Agent Replacement shall be filled out; 4. If it is found that there are errors in the registration documents or application documents that need to be corrected, an Application for Correction of Trademark Application/Registration Items shall be filled out. The errors mentioned here are limited to individual textual errors in the application documents. Procedures for change (1) The application documents to be submitted when preparing the application documents include: an application for change (choose the form according to the specific content of the application); Copy of the applicant's identity certificate (business license, ID card, etc.). ); Entrust the agent to submit the Power of Attorney, and directly submit the copy of the agent's ID card in the acceptance hall; To apply for changing the name of the registrant, a certificate of change issued by the registration authority shall also be submitted; (6) If the application documents are in a foreign language, a Chinese translation signed and confirmed by the translation agency shall also be provided. 1. The application forms should be filled out one by one and must be typed or printed. 2. When going through the alteration formalities, each trademark (each registration number) shall fill in an application for alteration and affix the seal of the applicant and/or the seal of the agent. 3, the applicant directly to the trademark registration hall, in addition to submitting the application, it should also submit the applicant's business license and a copy (or a copy of the business license stamped with the official seal of the unit) and a copy of the agent's ID card; If the applicant is a natural person, you can handle it yourself and submit a copy of the applicant's ID card. Where a trademark agency is entrusted, in addition to the application, a power of attorney for trademark agency, a copy of the applicant's business license or ID card shall also be submitted. 4. To apply for changing the name of the registrant, a certificate of change issued by the registration authority shall also be submitted. If the registrant is an enterprise, it shall issue a certificate of change of the registration department of the administrative department for industry and commerce; If the registrant is a public institution, it shall issue a certificate of change of the registration authority of the public institution; If the registrant is a natural person, it shall issue a certificate of change of the police station where the household registration is located. The name before change and the name after change on the certificate shall be consistent with the name before change and the name of the applicant on the application. If a foreign enterprise or foreigner only needs to change the Chinese translation name, it shall provide a statement that the foreign enterprise or foreigner has applied for changing the Chinese translation name. 5. Where an unregistered trademark applicant changes its name, it shall also be handled in accordance with the above provisions. 6. If you apply for a change of address, you don't need to attach a certificate of change, except when a natural person changes his address internationally. 7. If a natural person changes his address because of his nationality, he shall submit proof that he has lived at his current address for more than one year at the time of application. 8. If the trademark applied for change is a * * * trademark, the following documents shall also be submitted: a. If there is a trademark representative in the application for change, fill in the application for change of the name/address of the registrant and submit the consent statement of other * * * rights holders. B. To apply for changing the name of the trademark * * * *, whether it is to change the name of all * * * owners or some * * * owners, or to change the name of * * * owners, the names of all * * * owners shall be filled in the application form. The name and address of the representative should be written on the first page of the application, and the names of other * * * people should be written on the attached page of the application, and other * * * people do not need to fill in the address. C. If the name and address of the representative are changed, the name and address of the changed representative shall be filled in the column of the applicant's name and address on the first page of the application, and the name and address of the representative before the change shall be filled in the column of the name and address before the change on the first page of the application, and the corresponding name change certificate shall be attached. If the name and address of the representative have not changed, and the names of other * * * people apply for change, the fields of "name before change" and "address before change" on the first page of the application need not be filled in. D if the names of other * * * people are changed, the names of other * * * people before the change and the names of other * * * people after the change (hereinafter referred to as the list of names before the change and the list of names after the change) shall be filled in respectively, and the corresponding change certificates shall be attached. If the names of other * * * people have not changed, the names of the * * * people who have not changed shall be filled in the list of names before change and the list of names after change on the attached page of the application. (2) Submit the application form 1. If the applicant goes directly to the trademark registration hall, after the application form is ready, submit it in the application acceptance window of the trademark registration hall, and the staff at the window will confirm whether the application form is qualified. 2. Where a trademark agency is entrusted, the trademark agency shall serve the application to the Trademark Office. (III) Payment of change fee The application for change shall pay the change fee 500 yuan. Where a trademark agency is entrusted, the applicant shall pay the alteration fee and agency fee to the trademark agency, and the alteration fee charged by the Trademark Office shall be deducted from the advance payment of the trademark agency.