Preliminary review is a necessary procedure for approving a registered trademark stipulated in the Trademark Law. It means that the formal review and substantive review have come to an end, and it means that the relevant reviewers of the Trademark Office believe that the trademark registration application complies with the regulations and laws. Regulation.

If a trademark applied for registration passes the formal examination and substantive examination, the Trademark Office will preliminarily approve it and make an announcement. The external consequences will be that the trademark has been preliminarily approved and announced to the public.

The content of the preliminary trademark approval announcement is:

The preliminary approval number, application date, trademark, used goods and categories, applicant's name and address.

Article 30 of the Trademark Law stipulates that any person may raise an objection to a preliminary approved trademark within three months from the date of announcement. For trademarks that have been initially approved and announced within the three-month opposition period, anyone can directly file an opposition application with the Trademark Office of the State Administration for Industry and Commerce, or entrust a nationally recognized trademark agency to handle the opposition application.

Extended information:

Trademark status preliminary review time:

Trademark formal review (about 1 month), trademark formal review refers to the trademark registration authority’s review Whether the documents and procedures for applying for trademark registration comply with legal requirements, if so, the review agency will assign an application number, determine the application date, and issue a "Registration Acceptance Notice."

It is very important to establish the filing date. Since my country’s trademark registration adopts the first-to-file principle, once the filing date occurs, it becomes the legal basis for determining trademark rights. The filing date for trademark registration shall be the day the Trademark Office receives the application documents. The date shall prevail.

The Trademark Preliminary Examination Announcement (3 months) refers to the decision to allow registration of a trademark registration application that complies with the relevant provisions of the Trademark Law after review. And be announced in the "Trademark Announcement". If no one raises any objection to a preliminary approval trademark within three months from the date of publication of the preliminary approval announcement, the trademark will be registered, a registration announcement will be published, and a registration certificate will be issued.

Reference materials: China National People’s Congress Network-Trademark Law of the People’s Republic of China