the subject of trademark objection review: the Trademark Office is responsible for the review.

time for exercising trademark objection: within three months from the date of announcement for any trademark that has been preliminarily approved and announced.

the effectiveness of trademark objection: after the preliminary examination and announcement of a trademark is challenged, the trademark registration process will enter the objection review procedure.

Process steps of trademark objection:

1. Objection: Fill in the Trademark Objection Letter, indicating the name, commodity category, preliminary approval number, preliminary approval announcement number and reasons for the objection. If it is considered that the objected trademark is the same as or similar to the trademark registered by the dissident and used in the same or similar goods, the commodity category, trademark name and registration number of the registered trademark of the dissident shall also be filled in.

2. Notice of reply: After receiving the objection and relevant evidence, the Trademark Office will send a copy of the objection to the objector, who shall make a written reply within 3 days from the date of receiving the objection. If the objector fails to make a reply within the time limit, it shall be deemed as a waiver, which shall not affect the objection procedure.

3. correction (not a necessary process): after receiving the objection application, if the Trademark Office finds that there are problems in the objection application that need to be corrected, it will send a notice of correction to the objector or trademark agency to make corrections within a time limit.

4. make a ruling: the trademark office shall listen to the facts and reasons stated by the objector and the objector, and make a ruling after investigation and verification.

5. Service of ruling: The Trademark Office shall send the ruling of objection to the objector and the objector after making the ruling of objection. There are two results of the objection ruling: (1) the objection reason cannot be established, and then it is registered with the trademark preliminarily approved; (2) If the objection is justified and the objection is established, the trademark originally preliminarily approved shall not be registered.

6. Re-examination: Any party who disagrees with the ruling of objection may apply to the Trademark Review and Adjudication Board for re-examination within 15 days from the date of receiving the notice of objection ruling.