1. Registration

1. There are different prerequisites for registration

The basic condition for trademark registration is that you must have a business license, whether individual or enterprise or other organizational forms.

In addition, when registering an individual license, you need the same ID card as the individual licensed operator. For other forms, you only need a license and an official seal.

Domain name registration does not require a license. Anyone can register. If a real-name system is required, an ID card is enough.

2. Differences in registration channels

The only agency that accepts trademark registration is the State Trademark Office. Applicants can only register through an agency registered with the State Trademark Office or register with the State Trademark Office. Handled in the lobby. In addition, national trademark authorization is established at various acceptance windows across the country, and there is no other channel.

There are various channels for domain name registration, and sometimes consumers can’t tell where is the best place to register. There is no single official channel, all are operated by commercial companies. Better registrars include Wanwang, Xinwang, Yiming, Ainame, Western Digital, etc.

3. The registration time is different

Trademark registration is legally required to be completed within 12 months from the date of acceptance. The actual situation takes longer than this, about 12-15 months. look.

Domain name registration takes effect immediately and is simple and fast.

4. The query before registration is different

The query data before trademark registration comes from the regular trademark announcement data of the State Trademark Office, and this data has a lag.

Therefore, there is a blind period in querying data, that is, you cannot query someone who registered the same trademark one or two months before you or even longer. This brings potential risks to registration, but the risk of such blind chess is generally low.

In addition, there are various similarities in the results of trademark query feedback. The judgment of whether the trademark is similar or not is crucial and even decisive to whether the trademark can be successfully registered. Therefore, non-professionals must entrust a professional agent. Institutional handling.