1. First, the applicant conducts a trademark search to prevent the trademark he or she is applying from being the same or similar to someone else’s existing trademark, and to maximize the understanding of the trademark’s approval rate.

2. Prepare application materials for trademark registration. If you apply for registration in your own name, you must provide a copy of your personal ID card and a copy of the business license of an individual industrial and commercial household. The copy of the business license of an individual industrial and commercial household must be stamped with an official seal. If applying in the name of a company, a copy of the business license must be provided. Provide trademark text or pictures. If the color needs to be protected, color pictures must also be provided. If a trademark agency is entrusted to handle the matter, the applicant shall submit a power of attorney entrusting the trademark agency to handle the trademark registration matters in addition to other documents that should be submitted.

3. Determine the category of goods or services and the specific goods or services. The applicant shall fill in the form with reference to the ninth edition of the "International Classification of Goods and Services for Trademark Registration" and the "Distinguishing Table of Similar Goods and Services" modified by the Trademark Office based on the above-mentioned international classification table.

4. After submitting the application, wait for the Trademark Office to accept and issue an acceptance notice. Please refer to the process below for formal review and substantive review of trademark registration.

Image source: Trademark Office of the State Administration for Industry and Commerce 5. Trademark preliminary review announcement refers to the decision to allow registration of a trademark registration application that meets 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.