(1) If an individual applies for trademark registration, the following application documents should be submitted:

1. Trademark registration application signed by the applicant.

2. 6 trademark drawings (one attached to the back of the application form and 5 submitted). The drawings are required to be clear and the length and width should be no less than 5 cm and no more than 10 cm. If you specify a color, attach one coloring pattern, submit 5 coloring patterns, and attach 1 black-and-white pattern.

3. Submit a trademark agency power of attorney. (If you apply for it yourself, you don’t need it)

4. Copy of ID card, copy of business license of individual industrial and commercial household

(2) Applying for trademark registration in the name of a legal person or other organization , the following application documents should be submitted;

1. Trademark registration application stamped with the official seal of the applicant.

2. 6 trademark drawings (one attached to the back of the application form and 5 submitted) must be clear and have a length and width of not less than 5 cm and not greater than 10 cm. If you specify a color, attach 1 coloring pattern, 5 coloring patterns, and 1 black-and-white pattern.

3. A copy of the applicant’s subject qualification certification document (usually a copy of the business license, please note that it is a copy and not the original)

4. Affixed with the applicant’s official seal Trademark agency power of attorney.

5. If the trademark applied for registration is a portrait of a person, a notarized statement from the portrait owner agreeing to register the portrait as a trademark should be attached.

It takes about one month for the Trademark Office to issue an acceptance notice; the preliminary announcement period is three months; and it takes about one year to complete trademark registration.

Registration process

Trademark inquiry (within 2 days)→Application document preparation (within 3 days)→Submit application (within 2 days)→Pay trademark registration fee→Trademark form review (1 month )→Issuance of trademark acceptance notice→Trademark substantive examination (12 months)→Trademark announcement (3 months)→Issuance of trademark certificate. (The new Trademark Law was implemented on May 1, 2014, and the substantive trademark review period is 9 months.)

1. Trademark query.

Trademark search refers to the search by a trademark registration applicant or its agent to see whether the trademark applied for is the same as or similar to the prior rights trademark before filing an application for registration.

The following situations are explained here:

1. Words that lack distinctiveness or are prohibited by trademark law cannot be judged by query whether their application for registration can be approved. ;

2. If there are identical or similar trademarks that have been previously applied for and have not yet been entered into the Trademark Office database when searching, the search results will not be reflected because the two are close in time;

3 . If the inquiry report provides several trademarks that may be similar, the agent only makes an analysis based on general examination standards and experience. His opinions are for reference only and do not represent the examination opinions of the Trademark Office;

4. For combined trademarks, if only part of the trademark (such as Chinese or English) is queried, and other parts of the actual applied trademark (such as graphics) are the same or similar to someone else’s registered trademark, the entire trademark will be rejected;

5. The client only provided the name of the trademark during the query, but due to differences in fonts, colors, structures or arrangements in the trademark design draft provided during the actual application, the query results may not completely reflect the same or to a similar degree.