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How can I apply for a trademark?
Registration process: 1. The purpose of applying for comprehensive inquiry is to inquire whether your trademark can be registered. 2. If you can register, apply for your trademark registration, determine the category according to the goods, and fill out the application form and other documents. At this time, the certificate is attached, and then the client submits it to the Trademark Office, waiting for the acceptance notice of the Trademark Office. It usually takes three months. The last step is to wait for the registration certificate. It will take a long time. After successful registration, if it has not been used for three years, the Trademark Office will revoke its registrant's trademark application for individual and enterprise. Natural persons can apply. 1. How to register a trademark must submit an application for trademark registration to the Trademark Office of the corresponding country or region. The application must contain a clear pattern of the logo applied for registration, including any color, shape or three-dimensional features. The application must also list the goods or services that use the trademark. The mark must meet certain conditions before it can be protected as a trademark or other type of mark. Logo must have distinctive features, so that consumers can distinguish it as a sign to identify a specific product and distinguish it from other trademarks to identify other products. Signs shall not mislead or deceive consumers, and shall not violate public order or public morality. Almost all countries in the world register and protect trademarks. Each country or regional bureau has a trademark registration book, which contains all the application materials for registration and renewal, so as to facilitate the examination, retrieval and possible objections of third parties, but the effectiveness of trademark registration is limited to one country involved (or multiple countries in the case of regional registration). In order to avoid the need for separate registration in each country or regional bureau, the World Intellectual Property Organization implements an international registration system for trademarks. This system is based on two treaties, namely the madrid agreement concerning the international registration of marks and the Madrid Protocol. Anyone who has some connection (through nationality, domicile or business office) with the member countries of one or two treaties can obtain international registration valid in some or all other countries of Madrid Union according to the registration or application made by the trademark office of that country. At present, more than 60 countries have participated in these two agreements. Second, how to get a trademark quickly. Accordingly, it is necessary to explain the secret of rapid trademark registration: first, the subject qualification should be legal and not fraudulent. In China, the Trademark Law clearly stipulates that the subjects who can apply for trademarks are legal persons and natural persons. Judging from the current provisions of the Trademark Office, a legal person can apply for a trademark without any kind with a valid business license or permit. Natural persons handling individual industrial and commercial households must produce valid identity documents and business licenses, which are limited to interrelated categories within the scope of business and services. Applicants from Hongkong, Macau, Taiwan Province Province and relevant foreign countries and regions apply for registered trademarks in China, and the main qualifications they need to submit are: business license, ID card, passport, etc. Note: (1) All certificates must be obtained in accordance with the law and are authentic and valid; (2) All certificates must be within the validity period; (3) All certificates shall be clean and tidy, with no traces of alteration; (4) All certificates must be legible and unambiguous. Second, choose trademarks carefully, don't hitchhike, use famous brands skillfully, and try to play the edge ball. Choosing a good trademark can be described as "a journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step" for the future development of an enterprise. What kind of trademark can be chosen to speed up the examination and registration process? (1) The trademark is legal. Generally speaking, it means observing the laws and regulations of China. (2) The trademark should be distinctive. In layman's terms, it is to make others easy to identify. The stronger the recognition ability, the higher the meaning, the faster the exam passes, the fewer people raise objections, the lower the operation and construction cost, the shorter the fame time and the greater the income. (3) the trademark should be novel. Generally speaking, novelty is an originality. If you want to register a trademark quickly, you don't have to go all the way to find a product advertisement. Wan Li had to find a well-known brand to hitchhike, and side by side with the well-known brands, edging the ball. It doesn't have any practical significance, it's just a temporary pleasure. When creating a trademark, anyone who deliberately avoids the prior well-known trademark and well-known trademark from the aspects of pronunciation, memory, implication, association and internationalization features of the trademark will win unexpected trademark wealth and easily become his own well-known trademark and well-known trademark through hard work. Third, careful inquiry, reduce risks, and pave the way for improving the announcement of trademark quick trial. Before submitting a trademark application, you must make careful investigation and analysis. It is necessary to inquire about trademarks, similar trademarks and similar trademarks of the same kind of goods, as well as trademarks translated between Chinese and English, as well as some identical and similar meaningless trademarks, various graphic trademarks and combined trademarks. It is particularly important to note that after inquiring and determining the applied trademark, it is necessary to carefully analyze whether it complies with the Trademark Law, the Regulations on the Implementation of Trademarks, the Trademark Examination Standards and other relevant provisions. If enterprises and natural persons can't do the above work, it is strongly recommended to entrust an intellectual property agency to prepare for the announcement of trademark quick approval. Four, trademark samples should be clear, the protection category should be standardized and clear. Many enterprises and natural persons design the trademark samples in a spectacular way, which actually violates the provisions of the trademark examination standards. Generally speaking, the background of a trademark sample is complex, vague and insignificant, and the Trademark Office will make a decision not to accept it, which will inevitably affect the time limit for the trademark to be quickly approved for preliminary examination. There are also many enterprises and natural persons who think they know everything. If there is any difficulty in applying for a trademark, they can do it themselves without an agency. Don't you have all the product categories on the Internet? In fact, China's Trademark Office adopts the Table of Distinguishing Similar Commodities in Trademark Registration, which is also updated year by year. If you choose directly after downloading from the internet, it will inevitably lead to the start of the "correction" program, which will seriously affect the time limit for the rapid approval of the preliminary examination announcement of the trademark. 5. Pay the trademark registration fee on time and entrust the intellectual property agency cautiously. With the improvement of the information automation office system of China Trademark Office, I am very optimistic about the development prospect of rapid trademark registration in the future. All legally established intellectual property agencies, enterprises, institutions and legal persons can apply for online declaration through the designated system of China Trademark Office. What needs to be reminded is that some enterprises and natural persons want their trademarks to get preliminary examination and registration quickly, and they must pay the trademark registration fee to the Trademark Office on time, commonly known as "handling fee". Otherwise, it will not only be unpleasant, but also receive a notice of rejection, which will delay the time for approval. Of course, in the initial stage of the development of trademark agency in China, there are still many imperfections and disharmonies. When there is no law to clearly regulate the benign operation and development of agency organizations, unfair competition among agency organizations becomes more and more prominent. Some agency organizations arbitrarily depress the agency price, collect a large number of cases, and have a long backlog, failing to submit a declaration to the Trademark Office in time or failing to pay the fees in time, resulting in an indefinite delay in the approval date of the preliminary examination announcement, which has caused great hidden dangers to enterprises, institutions and natural persons. It is suggested that some enterprises, institutions and natural persons carefully choose intellectual property agencies and do not blindly pursue low costs. Six, increase the intensity of trademark monitoring, found that there is a prior application of trademarks, as soon as possible to adjust the program. Some enterprises and natural persons think that everything will be fine when the trademark is delivered to the Trademark Office, and everything will wait for the good news of the preliminary announcement. In fact, due to the rapid development of China's trademark application, the computer system and staff of the Trademark Office bear too heavy workload. With an increase of 80,000 applications every month, it is difficult to avoid the "trademark collision" in the "blind search area" for three to six months, which may easily lead to the late application date of the same standard, approximate standard, same standard, same commodity, approximate standard and same commodity. Once this phenomenon is discovered, the standard sample will be re-selected immediately and the application will be re-submitted to ensure that the trademark will be approved and registered quickly. Of course, if the same or similar bidding application date is earlier and it is deemed as "infringement of prior use right", the collection and use of evidence can be done in time so as to do a good job in trademark rejection and reexamination.