Procedures for handling international trademark registration
The procedures for handling international trademark registration are as follows: 1. First, the applicant should apply to the Trademark Office of the State Administration for Industry and Commerce. The applicant can send or submit the documents directly to the Trademark Office, or handle them through an agency. The documents for direct application include: a completed application for international registration, which must be stamped with the official seal, a copy of the domestic trademark registration certificate (or the announcement of preliminary examination and approval), a power of attorney and two trademark patterns if the application is submitted through an agency, and two color trademark patterns if it is a color trademark. The application should be filled in as required, and the handwriting should be clear and easy to identify. 2. After receiving the application documents with complete formalities, the Trademark Office shall register the application date, code the application number, calculate the fees to be paid by the applicant, and send the Notice of Fees to the applicant. 3. After receiving the Notice of Charge, the applicant should pay the fee according to the amount as soon as possible, and the Trademark Office will only submit an application to the International Bureau after receiving the full remittance. If the Trademark Office has not received the remittance after two months, it will return this application document and other attachments to the applicant, without keeping the application date and application number. 4. Here, the applicant should be reminded that if the International Bureau receives the application for trademark registration submitted by the Trademark Office within two months from the date when it receives the application for international registration, the receipt date of the Trademark Office is the receipt date of the International Bureau, that is, the international registration date of the trademark; If the International Bureau receives the application two months later, it will take the date when the International Bureau receives the application as the date of receipt and the date of international registration. 5, if the applicant wants to specify the protection of existing countries? Agreement? Member States, again? Protocol? Member States, but the trademark applied for registration in their own country has not been registered, or just submitted an application. In this case, we suggest that the applicant can first? Protocol? When a member country applies for international registration, the trademark will be registered in its own country? Agreement? Member States apply for later territorial extension. In this way, we can apply for international registration of trademarks immediately, without wasting time, and obtain trademark registration protection as soon as possible, especially when the application for international registration is filed within six months of the application for domestic registration, the applicant can also claim priority. trade mark registration