There is something wrong with the Trademark Office official website or the system is under maintenance. Solution:

First, change the browser. Generally speaking, IE is the easiest to succeed.

Second, changing IE settings, installing soft certificates in the Trademark Office requires more than N permissions, which are basically allowed.

Historical background:

The function of a trademark is to distinguish products or services by some external signs. It can be said that the trade name is the name of the enterprise, while the trademark is the name of the product or service provided by the enterprise. Trade names and trademarks also have the functions of providing customers with identification marks, guiding consumers to choose, expanding market advantages and serving enterprise management and operation.

A trademark approved and registered by the trademark administration authority according to law must meet the statutory conditions and go through legal procedures. The specific types of registered trademarks include: certification trademarks, commodity trademarks, service trademarks and collective trademarks. And when applying for registration, the applicant shall fill in the category and name of the goods using the trademark according to the business scope and the prescribed commodity classification table.