A trademark is actually a mark used by a producer or operator in the manufacture of a commodity to distinguish other goods from distinctive features such as graphics or characters. So, how much do you know about trademark agency? How to guard against the risk of trademark agency? From small series to bring about the risk of trademark agents to prevent the relevant content, hoping to be helpful to you.
First, what are the risks of trademark agency?:
1., false propaganda and misleading customers are typical manifestations of the anomie of trademark agency industry.
2., fraud, fraud management also reflects the dishonesty of the trademark agency industry.
3., the distorted development of trademark agency industry is also reflected in the low quality, lack of professional standards and unfair competition in the consulting service of agencies.
Two, how to prevent the risk of trademark agency?:
First, first by the State Administration of trademark Industrial and Commercial Bureau official website of the relevant agency qualification, choose reliable from providing agency services for themselves, in principle, try to choose the agency for a long time, the establishment of a good reputation. In addition, agencies in Beijing may be given priority because they are geographically convenient to communicate with and communicate with the trademark office. Or select local agencies, once disputes arise, but also conducive to timely solution.
Second, to apply for registration of trademarks, in the industry division of a certain understanding. When an applicant applies for a registered trademark, he or she should know exactly which category of goods or services he belongs to and decide on the relevant categories according to the future development plan. This will prevent some trademark agencies from encouraging applicants to carry out unnecessary full class registration in order to charge more.
Third, master the procedure of trademark registration, pay attention to the dynamic of registration application, and avoid the commitment of trusting agency. The trademark office applies the registered trademark for examination according to the time of application, and there is no "jumping the queue", so as to avoid the belief that the agency is looking for an acquaintance and speeding up the examination. Generally speaking, in a complete application for trademark registration process, from submission to received notice of acceptance of the application time should be in 3~4 months, if the agency earlier than 3 months to get the acceptance notice or not later than 4 months to get the acceptance notice, are likely to have problems, then the applicant should query China trademark to keep abreast of the situation.
Fourth, correctly treat trademark rejection and trademark objections. In the face of the fact that the trademark has not been examined, the applicant should correctly treat his attitude and decide whether or not to reject the review on the basis of comprehensive consideration. When some agencies claim that the review is out of date, the applicant cannot be trusted.