A trademark registration certificate is a legal document issued by the Trademark Office to a trademark registrant to prove the scope of its exclusive right to use a trademark in accordance with the relevant provisions of the Trademark Law. The main contents recorded in the trademark registration certificate include: the trademark, the trademark registration number, the name and address of the trademark registrant, the goods or services approved for use by the registered trademark and their categories, and the start and end dates of the exclusive right to use the trademark.

Article 30 of the Trademark Law stipulates that if there is no objection to a trademark preliminarily examined and approved by the Trademark Office within three months from the date of announcement, it shall be approved for registration, issued with a trademark registration certificate and announced.

However, according to the current Trademark Law and its implementing regulations, when the Trademark Office issues a trademark registration certificate for the first time, there will be two situations:

1. All the information recorded in the registration certificate is completely consistent with the current actual situation of the trademark;

2. The trademark owner and related information are different from those recorded in the registration certificate when issuing the certificate.

The second case arises because the revised Trademark Law gives the applicant the right to transfer and change at the application stage.

If the trademark at the application stage is changed or transferred, there will also be two situations:

1. If the application for change or transfer is approved before the issuance of the Trademark Registration Certificate, the registration certificate issued shall record the change or the relevant domicile of the transferee;

2. If the application for change or transfer is not approved before the issuance of the Trademark Registration Certificate, the information of the original applicant will be recorded on the issued Trademark Registration Certificate, even if the owner of the registered trademark has changed at this time.

For the transfer and change of registered trademarks, the Trademark Law and its implementing regulations do not stipulate that the original registration certificate should be withdrawn and replaced with a new one, but only issue a certificate of change or transfer after approval and use it together with the original registration certificate. This situation shows that the registration certificate alone cannot explain the true legal status of a registered trademark.

A registered trademark is valid for ten years. If it is necessary to continue to use it after the expiration, it shall apply for renewal of registration six months before the expiration or within the extended period.

The renewal of a registered trademark is the same as the change and transfer. After the renewal, the registration certificate will not be renewed, only the certificate will be issued.

At this time, the trademark registration certificate seems to have expired, but it is not. The original registration certificate and the newly issued renewal certificate show that the registered trademark is still in a valid and legal state.

The above is the relevant contents of the trademark registration certificate compiled by Bailey for you. I hope it will help you ~