1. How to name the trademark. Trademarks must be legal, distinctive, and must not infringe the prior rights of others. The trademark name must be legal and have its own characteristics, so as to facilitate the company's subsequent publicity.
2. How to conduct trademark search. After determining a distinctive mark, the applicant must check whether someone has registered the trademark before launching products and services. You can check it for free in the trademark search box on the official website of the Trademark Office. After applying for a trademark, you can also check the trademark processing status and progress.
3. How to choose a trademark category. When registering a trademark, an enterprise should try its best to select the right products and categories, expand the scope of registration as much as possible, and achieve seamless protection. If conditions permit, it can apply for registration of all categories, that is, all goods and services should be registered. This gives you exclusive rights to any products and services. This can stop infringement, and more importantly, prevent others from registering and suing you for infringement, and maintain the uniqueness of your trademark.
4. How to deal with same-day trademark applications. If a trademark is applied for on the same day, the Trademark Office will first issue a notice of supplementary evidence of use to the applicant involved in the same-day application for trademark registration. Applicants are required to provide written evidence of actual use of the trademark within the specified time. The so-called evidence of actual use includes evidence that the trademark is used on goods, product packaging or containers, and commodity transaction documents, or that the trademark is used in advertising, exhibitions, and other commercial activities.
5. What should you do if there is a similar trademark registered in the same category? If "Trademark Bao" has registered the 2108 (Toothbrushing Tools) category, but has not actually produced or sold products under the 2108 (Toothbrushing Tools) category in the past three years, we can apply to the Trademark Office to cancel the category of "Trademarkbao" that has not been used for three years. "Application, referred to as withdrawal three". If you fail to provide proof of sales of products in this category, the category under the "Trademark Bao" trademark will be revoked.
6. How to make the trademark exclusive. Study the trademark category table in detail, 3503 Sales (Contract "Promotion (for others) 350071" and acting as an intermediary for others (purchasing goods and services for other enterprises) 350085" in "Agent". Its meaning is to provide what others need, no matter what is needed, as long as the customer's needs are legitimate and the services provided by the company are not illegal, it can be explained by these two subcategories.
7. How to minimize the trademark rejection rate. 60%-80% of trademark rejections are due to failure to do a good job in trademark search in the early stage. Therefore, in order to reduce the trademark rejection rate, in addition to the legality and distinctiveness of the applied trademark itself, it is necessary to entrust a professional and strict risk review and notification. Agencies are critical and can help clients minimize registration risks. Of course, since registering a trademark itself is risky, not just filing an application will guarantee successful registration. It is the Trademark Office that conducts the approval, and a trademark agency cannot guarantee success.
8. How to improve the success rate of trademark registration. First, the industry categories directly involved in the business scope of the enterprise should be registered; then, the categories indirectly related to the enterprise's business projects should be registered; finally, protection registration should be gradually carried out in all categories. When registering in the first part, it is best to register the corporate logo separately from Chinese, English, Pinyin, etc. Although the cost is relatively high, this can reduce the registration risk. This is because the Trademark Office examines each part separately during the actual examination of a trademark. If any part is identical or similar, the entire trademark will be rejected. This is a very uneconomical risk. Because trademark registration takes a long time and there are many uncertain factors, trademark protection must be carried out step by step and in a planned manner.
9. The trademark has been rejected, what should I do? "After the Trademark Office issues a notice of trademark rejection or partial rejection," if the applicant is dissatisfied with the Trademark Office's rejection decision, he or she may apply to the Trademark Office for a rejection review within 15 days of receiving the notice. This is very important and can even help your trademark come back to life."
10. What should you do if you want to protect the Chinese character name alone? A company wants to protect its name through a trademark, but after submitting a Chinese character manuscript, it cannot After being reviewed by the Trademark Office, in this case, you can try to design the Chinese characters that need to be registered as traditional Chinese characters and use unusual fonts. The manuscript processed in this way will be considered by the Trademark Office to be graphics rather than Chinese characters, and it will be easier to pass Review.