Recently, the Supreme People's Court held a press conference in Beijing and announced the characteristics and trends of cybercrime in the "Special Report on Judicial Big Data: Characteristics and Trends of Cybercrime", which mainly analyzed the characteristics and trends of cybercrime from 2016 to 2018. Cybercrime cases heard in courts across the country.

The report shows that from 2016 to 2018, national cyber crime cases involved 258 crimes, of which fraud cases accounted for the highest proportion, accounting for 31.83%; followed by the crime of opening casinos, accounting for the largest proportion of cases is 10.45%.

Scammers mainly use WeChat to commit fraud. The proportion of such cases in all online fraud cases is increasing rapidly year by year. By 2017, it has overtaken QQ. With QQ’s share In 2018, WeChat’s share exceeded QQ’s by about 20 percentage points.

Therefore, the popularity of WeChat has made it a tool frequently used by online fraud criminals in 2018.

The report also shows that when committing online fraud cases, scammers often deceive victims by impersonating other people's identities, recruiting, dating, advertising, shopping (during the shopping process) and other methods or words. Among them, impersonation cases accounted for the highest proportion, accounting for approximately 31.52%.

From the perspective of impersonation methods, the scammers in most online fraud cases pretend to be women, acquaintances, staff of state agencies or institutions, buyers and sellers, banks, professionals, etc.

Of course they are those who love petty gains and want to get rich overnight.

This kind of people are especially easy to deceive. As long as they draw a pie that looks very "delicious", there will definitely be many people who are willing to believe that there are good things in the world.

Speaking of this, I can’t help but think of several questions and answers I saw on the Trademark Office before. The inquirers were asked to add WeChat by a company claiming to be a registration agency directly under the Trademark Office. Because they were suspicious of this statement, so I just went to the Trademark Office for verification.

The Trademark Office gave a negative reply and asked the inquirers not to believe the information spread through unofficial channels.

Fortunately, they know that they should ask the Trademark Office before adding WeChat to avoid being deceived.

However, some netizens said that the Trademark Office was acting in an official tone, and felt that the content of their reply was not painful at all; some netizens blamed the Trademark Office for failing to shut down these institutions in time.

In fact, the Trademark Office often receives a large number of such complaints. Because the amount of information is too large, it cannot be processed in time, so they can only help defrauded trademark applications based on the order of complaints. Investigate unscrupulous organizations and deal with them according to regulations.

Can all of them be processed?

You must know that there are such trademark agencies everywhere. Even if they are seized and fined today, the worst thing is to avoid the limelight and change them later. Change the place and name and make a comeback.

What's more, the Trademark Office notified the public of "eight types of agencies suspected of illegal activities" a long time ago to remind the public to beware of being deceived. The eight types of suspected illegal acts of trademark agencies pointed out in the notice include:

1. Falsely promote their relationship with the State Administration for Industry and Commerce and the Trademark Office, claiming that they are approved by the Trademark Office, have long-term cooperation with the Trademark Office, and have internal channels , and a general lawyer from the State Administration for Industry and Commerce;

2. Claim that it has been awarded relevant honorary titles by the Trademark Office, and forge false honors such as licensing and awards from the Trademark Office;

3. Commitment to apply The pass rate of trademark applications through its agency is 100%, or it provides a guaranteed contract;

4. Claims that its agency can quickly accept, review, and obtain registration certificates for trademark applications;

5. Forgery Documents and information such as trademark application review process information mislead trademark applicants;

6. Use methods such as exaggerating the success rate of trademark rejection review by its agents, deceiving applicants to change agents for review or litigation, etc. to solicit business;

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7. Defraud the applicant by charging “registration fee”, “trademark application insurance fee”, “trademark pre-protection fee” and other fees in addition to the trademark application fee;

8. The gang deceives the applicant and Let the relevant trademarks be used, and arrange for others to file malicious applications for cancellation, opposition, invalidation, etc. against the above-mentioned trademarks, tricking applicants into paying high fees and then withdrawing relevant applications, etc.

Did you see it? The Trademark Office has already stated it in Articles 1 and 2. I really can’t blame them for not shutting down those unscrupulous trademark agencies in time.

There are really too many such agencies, and they can’t be managed at all! That’s why they issued a notice to let trademark applicants be careful when looking for trademark agencies!

Of course, it’s not Everyone has this vigilance, and there are really not a few people who easily believe the information posted by an agency on WeChat and fall into the trap and suffer big losses.

In 2016, Mr. Xu from Suzhou wanted to register a trademark. He found a trademark agency in the area and paid 2,000 yuan in advance. Unexpectedly, it didn’t take long for the agency to ask Mr. Xu to verify the registered trademark. For originality, another 8,000 yuan was required. Fortunately, Mr. Xu suspected that the other party might be a scammer. After carefully checking all the procedures that required trademark registration, he found that he had indeed been deceived.

In 2017, Mr. Li from Zhengzhou started his own business and wanted to build his own trademark brand. However, he was deceived by a trademark agency and fell into the trap of "secondary development". In the end, he spent a total of 44 Ten thousand yuan wasted in vain, which made Mr. Li feel bitter and unable to express his feelings!

Also in 2017, a man in Jiyang entrusted a trademark agency to help register a trademark, and it ended up costing him 10,000 yuan. Duan Duan also didn't see his registered trademark, and finally the trademark agency "lost contact".

There is also a Mr. Wang from Dongying, Shandong Province who wanted to register a trademark but accidentally fell into a serial scam. First, he was deceived by an agency to "expedite" registration, and later he needed to register a "network mark". After going through the process, I spent 30,000 yuan, and finally realized that I had been deceived.

There are too many trademark scams like this, and the Trademark Office can’t predictably catch such organizations before they commit crimes, right?

Or simply ban WeChat? It’s impossible to think about it with your toes!

Instead of banning this and that, trademark applicants themselves should not easily believe what others say that they are directly affiliated with the Trademark Office, let alone what they brag about on WeChat. of cattle.

If you want to find a professional trademark agency that is reliable, honest and unpretentious, all you need to do is take the initiative to do some research.

1. Check whether the agency is legal. Legal trademark agencies have been registered with the Trademark Office and have been granted legal trademark agency qualifications. In addition, log in to the National Enterprise Credit Information Publicity System to check the registration and administrative penalties of the agency.

2. Do some on-the-spot understanding of the agency before signing the contract. For example: check its business license, company website, and it is best to go to the company to inspect it in person.

3. Master certain trademark knowledge, master the trademark application procedures, pay attention to registration application trends in real time, and avoid trusting the agency's promises.

4. Carefully choose a trademark agency whose agency fee is too low. Carefully choose an agency that promises 100% successful registration. Trademark agency experts can only try to improve the success rate of trademark registration through professional analysis, but cannot guarantee 100% successful registration.

5. Try to entrust an agency that was established earlier and has a larger number of registrations. Because these institutions have high credibility, strong security, and reasonable fees, they can better protect the legitimate rights and interests of applicants.

Finally, I would like to remind you to find a trademark agency to help you handle related matters. Understanding the contents of trademark transfer in advance will provide a good foundation for the development of your company. Of course, when looking for a trademark agency, you must make plans and arrangements in advance to avoid rights disputes. For details of trademark transfer agency, please consult Bajie Intellectual Property Trademark Transfer Network!