In the process of registering a family farm trademark, family farm operations need to pay attention to trademark issues to ensure the effective use of the farm’s intellectual property and promote and support trademark registration applications by enterprises and other market entities. The registration and application of a family farm trademark is divided into four stages: application acceptance, preliminary review and preliminary review modification, authorization review and registration. Family farm trademark registration fees

The fees that family farms need to pay during the process of applying for trademark registration include the following parts:

1. Basic fees. Registered trademarks of family farms are mainly to protect the consumer rights of their agricultural products. The specific charging standards are based on the number of trademark registration applications for each product. Different products are registered by different registration authorities. The amount of registration fees is directly related to the application speed of family farms. At present, family farms mostly use an application period of about 3-6 months to facilitate consumers to purchase crops, feed or help plant crops. Some family farms also hire experts to help with registration, and the registration fees are as high as thousands or even tens of thousands of yuan;

2. Follow-up service fees. The production, operation, and management of family farms not only involve farmers’ families but also the public such as villages, towns, townships, village cooperatives, and enterprises. Therefore, their trademark registration and legal registration work must be long-term and sustainable, and also need to be professional and professional. Standardization. The trademark owner of a family farm can apply to register his own trademark but the ownership of the trademark still belongs to the farmer. Family farms must declare all facts to the Trademark Office when applying for trademark registration. The content of the trademark registered by the family farm must comply with relevant regulations. Otherwise, the family farm will have to register simultaneously with other people's trademarks when applying for trademark registration. Issues such as whether the quality of family farms can ensure that the agricultural products produced have internationally recognized quality and whether subsequent social services can ensure the quality of professional planting must be considered. Family farms established without legal registration are very likely to become social problems or debt subjects or lack the environment, land and other conditions. These unregistered family farms will be a problem that cannot be ignored in the construction of a harmonious socialist society in our country.

The specific details of the trademark registration process and fees for family farms are as follows:

Applying for trademark registration for family farms will become an important way to encourage the external development of rural family farms. Family farms that apply for trademark registration will become a symbol of the name, standard and quality of the agricultural products produced by the family farm, enhance the development strength of the family farm, and play a role in driving the development of the agricultural economy and agricultural product processing industry. The basic procedure for a family farm to apply for trademark registration is that the application submitted by the family farm must be reviewed and approved before the application trademark number is issued. Family farms applying for trademark registration need to pay trademark registration fees. Specifically, the name of a registered trademark of a family farm must first clarify the specific concept of a family farm. Family farms are family farms with farmers as the main body, including planting, breeding, and processing. Secondly, the name of the family farm needs to contain the words "家" and "Farm". The name of the family farm must have the extended meaning of forming a family through the process of agricultural production and land production. The word "jia" in the name of the third family farm indicates the long-term family life, and the word "nong" indicates the origin and characteristics of the family's agricultural products. Fourthly, the word "Nong" should be added to the name of the family farm. The two characters "家" and "Nong" will complement each other in the name. When applying for trademark registration, a family farm will apply for two to three trademarks. A family with a different name will need to apply for a corresponding trademark if the township or village has a trade name. At least two applications are required.

In summary, the application time for family farms to apply for trademark registration varies according to different industries. For example, food, fruit and vegetable and other processing industries apply later, while some products from other departments apply as early as the beginning of the year. If it is later, it may take a month or even more than 10 days to apply, which requires corresponding application time.

Legal basis:

Article 72 of the "Trademark Law of the People's Republic of China"

When applying for trademark registration and handling other trademark matters, Fees must be paid, and the specific charging standards will be determined separately.