After waiting for the acceptance notice to be issued, the preliminary examination announcement will be issued. If no one raises an objection within three months from the date of publication of the preliminary examination announcement, the trademark will be registered and a registration announcement will be published at the same time. If no one raises an objection within three months or the objection is ruled invalid, the trademark will become effective and protected by law, and the trademark registrant will enjoy the exclusive right to use the trademark.

application time for trademark registration: it usually takes about one year for a newly applied trademark to be issued, including one month for application acceptance and formal examination, four to five months for substantive examination, three months for objection, and three months for approval announcement and issuance.

Extended information

Trademark rejection is rejected by the Trademark Committee in the process of evaluation by the Administration for Industry and Commerce. There are many reasons, such as: the Trademark Committee thinks that it is possible to reject the trademark if a place name is used.

Trademark objection is a legal procedure clearly stipulated in the Trademark Law and its implementation rules, which seeks public opinions on the preliminary examination and approval of trademarks. Its purpose is to fairly and openly confirm the trademark rights and improve the quality of trademark registration review.

the content of trademark objection is very wide, including that the trademark that has been preliminarily approved is the same as or similar to the trademark that has been previously applied, that the trademark that has been preliminarily approved violates the prohibition clause of the Trademark Law or that the trademark is not significant, and that the applicant is not qualified to apply.

anyone can object to a trademark, that is, a trademark registrant or a non-trademark registrant, an enterprise, institution, individual, legal person or non-legal person. The establishment of trademark objection procedure aims to strengthen the public's supervision over trademark examination, reduce the mistakes in examination, strengthen trademark awareness, give the registered trademark owners and other interested parties a chance to protect their rights and interests, and prevent the occurrence of future conflicts of rights. The objector may be an interested party such as the registered trademark owner, the applicant who applied for trademark registration earlier, or any other citizen or legal person.

there are two main types of objections: one is the same as or similar to a registered trademark; The second is that the trademark violates the prohibition clause.

Reference: Baidu Encyclopedia-Trademark Registration