1, design - trademark registration before the application can be commissioned or designed by ourselves. Logo design should pay attention to the following points: (1) the originality, trademark design should be innovative; the one hand to meet the significant requirements, on the other hand, the original trademark can easily expand the visibility of goods, and quickly occupied the market. (2) the name of a trademark shall be avoided in conjunction with the function of the goods. (3) the design of a trademark should stress the theme and the reasonable layout.
2, query - trademark search usually refers to the registered trademark of the trademark registration applicant prior to the application, in order to understand the existence of its trademark registration may constitute a conflict of prior trademark rights, trademark information query. A trademark lasts for a long time from application to approval. If the trademark registration application is rejected, on the one hand, the loss of trademark registration fees, on the other hand, re apply for a registered trademark will take longer, and the re application can be approved, registration is still in an unknown state. Therefore, before applying for a registered trademark, the applicant is required to make a trademark inquiry to understand the prior rights. There are two kinds of inquiry service: one kind of internal inquiry service and the other one is agent government inquiry service, the time is 7-14 working days.
3, the application - trademark registration application submitted to the Hongkong intellectual property office.
4, accept - Hongkong Intellectual Property Department received the application for trademark registration information, after giving an application number, issued notice of acceptance, the time is about a week.
5, review trademark review is divided into form review and substantive review of the two processes. The form of examination of trademark registration in the review of the application, will be a detailed review of the application form and all attachments, to view the form to fill in part has been completed, the relevant information is correct, the required information is incomplete. If all is in order, the application process will proceed to the next stage (substantive review stage). The shortcomings of the substantive examination examination application and determine all the information available, the trademark registration department will check the trademark records, in order to determine the same or similar goods or services, whether there are other businesses have been registered or apply for registration of identical or similar trademarks. The Trademark Office will also examine whether the trademarks comply with the registration requirements under the trade marks ordinance. If approved, the application process will proceed to the next stage (the gazetted announcement stage).
6, announcement - the application for approval of the trademark registration office will be announced in the Hongkong intellectual property rights bulletin for a period of three months. If no objection is raised, the trademark will be registered successfully.
7, registration - trademark announcement without objection or ruled that the objection is not established, the successful registration. Normally, it takes about 6 months to obtain the registration certificate. After successful registration is valid for 10 years, six months before the expiration time can be renewed.