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What are the common types of trademark change applications?

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(1) Change the name and address of the registrant or applicant

According to the provisions of relevant laws and regulations, natural persons and legal persons After the name of an organization or other organization is changed, certain procedures must be completed in order to inherit its trademark rights. Otherwise, when the registrant exercises its rights, it cannot effectively prove that the trademark is owned by itself, and its trademark exclusive rights cannot be protected in a timely manner, because the law only recognizes that the original registrant has trademark rights. However, this change is limited to the change of the registrant's title and address, and has nothing to do with the content of the trademark right. This change occurs when the trademark belongs to the same registrant, and there is no transfer of trademark rights. As a result, the registrant The name has changed, but the trademark power is continuous.

(2) Change of trademark agent

In accordance with Article 23 of the Trademark Law and Article 17 of the Implementing Regulations of the Trademark Law, the registrant or applicant needs to If you want to change your trademark agent, you may apply to the Trademark Office for changing your trademark agent. After the trademark agent is changed, the Trademark Office will notify the registrant or applicant through the changed trademark agent regarding matters such as rejection of the trademark or application, registration objections, disputes, and cancellation applications for suspension of use for three consecutive years.

The application to change the agent is only applicable to the change of the agent of the registered trademark or registration applicant. To change the agent for opposition defense and review defense, an application should be made to the relevant department specifically.

(3) Deletion of goods or services

Deletion of goods or services falls within the scope of changing other registered matters stipulated in Article 23 of the Trademark Law. Or the applicant can delete the specified goods or services by submitting an "Application for Deletion of Goods/Services".

It should be pointed out that since Article 46 of the "Regulations for the Implementation of the Trademark Law" has added the content of partial cancellation, but the cancellation of some goods or services only applies to registered trademarks, so for registered trademarks, the Goods or services can also be processed through the cancellation procedure; for registration applications, deletion of goods or services can also be done by withdrawing the trademark registration application and withdrawing the goods or services that need to be deleted; the above-mentioned cancellation application and withdrawal of trademark registration application are as follows It is stipulated that there is no need to pay any trademark fees. In this sense, an application for deletion of goods or services, as a type of change application, can be completely replaced by a partial cancellation application and a partial withdrawal application.

(4) Correction of trademark application or registration matters

If the registrant or applicant finds that there are obvious errors in his trademark application documents or registration documents, he can apply for correction. To apply for correction, he should fill in the " Trademark Application/Registration Matters Application Form". According to Article 36 of the Trademark Law, such corrections do not involve the substantive content of trademark application documents or registration documents, that is, changes to drawings, additions or deletions of goods or services, or changes in rights holders are all inappropriate. What is allowed is generally limited to printing errors caused by the negligence of the applicant or agent.