(1) Trademarks
Applicants for trademark registration must meet the following requirements: applicants for trademark registration must be established enterprises, institutions, social organizations and individual businessmen. Materials to be submitted when applying for trademark registration: a copy of the business license and the identity certificate of the agent, 3 applications for trademark registration, a letter of introduction from the company, and 15 trademark standard designs (5 * 5-1 * 1 cm). Others:
1. To apply for trademark registration of drugs, medical foods and children's foods, the certification documents issued by the health administrative department shall be attached.
2. When submitting the application for registration of cigarettes, cigars and packaged cut tobacco, it shall be accompanied by the certificate that the national tobacco authorities have approved the production.
3. If the name of a newspaper or magazine is applied for trademark registration, the newspaper registration certificate with uniform serial number (CN) issued by the Press and Publication Administration shall be submitted. Time required for trademark registration process: application for trademark inquiry, declaration to the State Trademark Office, formal examination, substantive examination, preliminary examination announcement, and approval of registration. Time required: 1-2 days for trademark inquiry; After reporting, the formal review lasts for 7-14 days, the substantive review lasts for 9-15 months, and the preliminary review announcement lasts for 3 months.
(II) Patents
Patent applications are divided into three types: invention, utility model and design. You may apply for an invention patent for a new technical scheme proposed for a product, method or improvement; You can apply for a patent for utility model for a new technical scheme that is suitable for practical use according to the shape, structure or combination of products; A new design that is aesthetically pleasing and suitable for industrial application is made according to the shape, pattern or their combination of products and the combination of color and shape and pattern, and can apply for a patent for design.
1. To apply for a patent for invention, the application documents shall include: a request for a patent for invention, a specification (with drawings when necessary), a patent claim, an abstract and its drawings in duplicate. To apply for a patent for utility model, the application documents shall include: the request for a patent for utility model, the specification, the appended drawings of the specification, the patent claim, the abstract and the appended drawings, each in duplicate.
2. When applying for a patent, the applicant shall submit or send the application documents directly to the reception office of China National Intellectual Property Administration Patent Office (hereinafter referred to as the reception office of the Patent Office), or to the patent agency established in China National Intellectual Property Administration. At present, China National Intellectual Property Administration patent agency has been established in Beijing, Shenyang, Jinan, Changsha, Chengdu, Nanjing, Shanghai, Guangzhou, Xi 'an, Wuhan, Zhengzhou, Tianjin, Shijiazhuang, Harbin and Changchun. The National Defense Patent Branch specializes in accepting applications for national defense patents.
3. The application documents for a patent for invention or utility model shall be arranged in the following order: request, abstract of specification, appended drawings of abstract, patent claim, specification, appended drawings of specification and other documents. The application documents for a patent for design shall be arranged in the order of request, picture or photograph and brief explanation. All parts of the application documents shall be numbered in Arabic numerals.
4. There are specific requirements for the filling and writing of the application documents. The applicant can fill in or write them by himself or entrust a patent agency to handle them on his behalf. Although it is not mandatory to entrust a patent agency, considering the importance of carefully writing the application documents and the legal rigor of the examination and approval procedures, it is worth promoting for applicants with little experience.
(3) Copyright
Copyright means that a certain unit or individual has the right to print, publish and sell a certain work according to the law. Anyone who wants to copy, translate, adapt or perform needs the permission of the copyright owner, otherwise it is an infringement of the rights of others. The essence of intellectual property rights is to treat human intellectual achievements as property. Copyright is the original author of literary, artistic, scientific and technological works, which is a civil right enjoyed by his works according to law.
1. The applicant submits the registration application materials-the registration authority checks the received materials-notifies the payment-the applicant pays the registration fee-the registration authority accepts the application-examines-makes and issues the registration certificate-and makes an announcement.
2. In China, copyright comes into being from the date when the work is created. copyright registration is not a prerequisite for obtaining copyright, but copyright registration's certificate is a preliminary certificate of registered items, which can be used as a certificate for claiming rights or bringing administrative treatment or litigation of rights disputes.
Computer software can be registered by China Copyright Protection Center; Other original works: writing, art, photography, movies, music, architectural works and engineering design drawings, etc., can be registered by the provincial copyright registration department.