The defense of trademark revocation refers to the behavior of a trademark registrant who, after applying for revocation of a trademark by others, submits to China National Intellectual Property Administration the evidence of the use of the trademark in the past three years or the justified reasons for not using it within two months after receiving the Notice on Providing Evidence for the Use of a Registered Trademark issued by China National Intellectual Property Administration.

(1) Grasp the time and reply on schedule.

after receiving the notice of trademark revocation, you should pay attention to the time of receipt and the deadline for reply, reply as scheduled within two months, and submit the reply materials to avoid missing the reply time.

(2) collect evidence and sort it out.

collect a large number of evidence of the use of the revoked trademark in the past three years in an all-round way. The evidence should be open, legal, true and effective, and sorted in chronological order to form a complete evidence chain.

(3) Entrusting institutions to submit declarations.

after the evidence collection is completed, find a professional and formal agency, entrust it to write defense materials, and submit them to the Trademark Office within the statutory time limit. If there are evidence materials that need to be supplemented, they can be supplemented and submitted in the subsequent stage.

(4) provide justifiable reasons for not using it.

if the trademark cannot be used due to force majeure, government policy restrictions, bankruptcy liquidation and other factors, you can provide relevant materials and documents issued by the government or other factual evidence as a legitimate reason for not using it.