trademarks can be applied for in 13 months. From the date of application for trademark registration, one month later, if there is no problem with the submitted application documents for trademark registration, the Trademark Office will issue a notice of acceptance of the application for trademark registration. Within 9 months, usually just about 9 months, from the date of trademark registration application, the Trademark Office will make a substantive examination decision on the applied trademark. If there is no violation of the prohibition of using or registering the trademark, and there is no previous similar trademark, the applied trademark will enter the stage of preliminary examination and announcement. If no one raises an objection within 3 months, the application for trademark registration is successful. Within 3 months of the announcement period of preliminary examination and approval, the 6th, 13th, 2th and 27th of each month is the announcement date of trademark preliminary examination and approval. If no objection is filed to the trademark, the trademark will be successfully registered after the announcement period of preliminary examination and approval, and the Trademark Office will issue a trademark registration certificate.

Trademark Law of the People's Republic of China

Article 8 Any mark, including words, figures, letters, numbers, three-dimensional marks, color combinations and sounds, which can distinguish the goods of natural persons, legal persons or other organizations from those of others, and the combination of the above elements can be applied for registration as a trademark.

article 31 where two or more applicants for trademark registration apply for registration with the same or similar trademarks on the same commodity or similar commodities, the trademark that applied earlier shall be preliminarily examined and approved and announced; If the application is made on the same day, the earlier trademark shall be preliminarily examined and announced, and the application of others shall be rejected without announcement.

article 38 where an applicant or registrant for trademark registration finds that there are obvious errors in the trademark application documents or registration documents, he may apply for correction. The Trademark Office shall make corrections within the scope of its functions and powers according to law and notify the parties concerned. The correction of errors mentioned in the preceding paragraph does not involve the substantive contents of the trademark application documents or registration documents.

What is the process of registering a trademark

The process of registering a trademark is as follows:

1. Trademark inquiry. According to the trademark submitted by the customer and the goods or services used by the trademark, give professional inquiries, and according to the results of the inquiry, give the customer analysis and suggestions on the feasibility of applying for trademark registration, so as to minimize the risk of trademark rejection;

2. Apply for registration. In the bidding application stage, it shall be reported to the Trademark Office on the same day and returned to the Trademark Office to submit the list on the same day. In the trademark office review stage, the formal review passes to the trademark office to issue an acceptance notice to the substantive review. In the stage of trial announcement and approval of registration, the substantive examination passes to the announcement of preliminary examination, the objection period to the approval of registration.