Legal analysis: 1. If a milk tea shop registers a trademark, it will be Category 43. The official fee of the National Trademark Office is 800 yuan. The cost of a trademark agency is 300 to 1,000 yuan or more.
2. The formal review of the trademark takes 3 to 4 months. It is very important to establish the filing date. Since China’s trademark registration adopts the first-to-file principle, once the filing date occurs, the order of filing dates becomes the legal basis for determining trademark rights.
3. The application date for trademark registration is based on the date when the Trademark Office of the State Intellectual Property Office receives the application. The Trademark Office of the State Intellectual Property Office will issue the application that meets the formal requirements upon receipt of the trademark application. Notice of acceptance.
A trademark is a sign used to identify and distinguish the source of goods or services. Any mark that can distinguish the goods of a natural person, legal person or other organization from the goods of others, including words, graphics, letters, numbers, three-dimensional signs, color combinations and sounds, etc., as well as combinations of the above elements, can be applied for registration as a trademark .
Legal basis: "Trademark Law of the People's Republic of China"
Article 22 Applicants for trademark registration shall fill in the categories of goods for which the trademark is used according to the prescribed commodity classification table. and product name, submit an application for registration. A trademark registration applicant can apply to register the same trademark for multiple categories of goods through one application. Trademark registration applications and other relevant documents can be submitted in writing or in the form of data messages.
Article 28: For a trademark applied for registration, the Trademark Office shall complete the review within nine months from the date of receipt of the trademark registration application documents. If it complies with the relevant provisions of this Law, a preliminary review and announcement shall be made.