According to the requirements of the New U.S. Trademark Deal: All trademark applicants and registrants outside the United States, as well as parties to proceedings before the Trademark Trial and Appeal Board, must be represented by licensed U.S. attorneys when handling U.S. trademark-related business.

So, Chinese trademark applicants cannot register by themselves. Of course, if you have an American company, you can of course self-register an American trademark in the name of the American company.

The official fee for U.S. trademark registration is US$225 per class (registration is prerequisite for use); the fee for intention-to-use application is US$225 + US$100 per class.

Specific materials to be prepared:

1. Provide design drawings for trademark samples/graphic trademarks (for trademark applications filed with Amazon, it is recommended to use plain text logos and complex graphic logos May not pass the filing)

2. Evidence of trademark use

3. Applicant or legal person’s name (English)

4. Applicant’s address (English)< /p>

5. If it is a company applying for a company name (English)

Because professional people do professional things, in view of the new USPTO regulations, it is best to entrust Zhu Bajie Yangpi to apply for a US trademark. Ju Agent, because we have branches in the United States and our own cooperative lawyers, more than ten years of industry experience and cost-effective prices will make you more worry-free and satisfied.

2. In addition, it is very useful to introduce the method of searching for intended US trademarks.

For cross-border e-commerce, trademark infringement is the most troublesome problem. Once it is violated by unscrupulous law enforcement, If targeted, Paypal will be frozen, and the platform account will be fined or even closed. Therefore, before registering a trademark in the United States, trademark search is very important.

1. How to check whether a US trademark is registered?

2. Go to the official website of the United States Trademark Office www.uspto.gov, click Trademarks and then click Searching Trademarks

Scroll down and click Search our trademark database (TESS)

< p>Click Basic Word Marks Search

Enter the trademark name you want to query, such as "ZBJ", and click Submit Query

If no results are returned, it means that the trademark has not been registered.

2. How to check whether the trademark registered by the trademark agent is a text or a graphic?

As shown in the figure, after entering the trademark name for query, this trademark Mark Drawing Code is the third type design plus words, which is graphics plus text. If it is the fourth type, Standard Character mark, it is standard text.

Three: Where can I see the serial number or registration number of a trademark?

The serial number of the trademark is Serial Number (as shown in the picture above, the serial number is 85963552)

The registration number of the trademark is Registered Number

If there is a US trademark, international trademark For registration requirements, you can consult Bajie. I hope this has answered the question of the subject.

Important update on December 11, 2019---------------------------------- ----------

Correct interpretation of the USPTO's new policies

On December 10, the US Trademark and Patent Office USPTO issued new policies for trademark applications, using evidence for US trademark applications The requirements were more stringent, and for a time, the industry was flooded with interpretations, but little did they know that they were wrong interpretations (Article 3):

The U.S. branch and lawyers of Yang Piaoju called the U.S. Trademark Office to comment on the USPTO The correct interpretation of the new policy released is as follows:

1. Implementation date: February 15, 2020;

2. Paper and fax applications will not be accepted;

< p>3. Website screenshots are only one of the options. There is no hard and fast rule that website screenshots are required. If there are website screenshots, only the link + date is required.

You can view the USPTO's video explanation of this new policy at:

Recording of the web seminar on What's the impact of Trademarks mandatory electronic rule change?https://youtu filing .be/z9uJT8avbb4