The development of China's trademark undertakings, drainage of one-stop trademark agency services, but the natural phenomena that depend on uneven in quality agency enterprises in the registered trademark of the funds cast to the wind. Because some agencies in order to pursue business, the quality of services do not attach much importance to, resulting in loss of the applicant's trademark rights. Therefore, the registration process for the trademark notes, it is best to be familiar with, so as not to spend the wrong money running wrong road.
First, do a good job in trademark inquiries
Trademark inquiry is to avoid the risk of trademark registration. Among them, the same or similar trademark is the most common cause of failure in the process of trademark registration. Although this is not a necessary procedure, there is no doubt that it can improve the success rate of trademark registration. But not the query can completely avoid similar trademark, trademark during the pass issued after the logon to about five months or so, the specific time range, this period has been applied for but not published before we registered trademark, so the comparison is actually five months ago released trademark. In this regard, or that sentence to avoid popular, popular and popular words.
After the confirmation can be registered, the general agency will recommend a full class registration, so as to maximize the protection of trademarks. At this time the company itself needs to combine the long-term strategy and development is expected to consider, first of all because the whole class registration fee is high, if startups need to consider this part of the cost, you can also consider joint registered trademark in some types of goods, then the whole class registration to the economic circumstances permit. Secondly, if there is no justification for three consecutive years without the use of the trademark office as long as the other person to apply for revocation of the registered trademark, there is the risk of being revoked.
Two. Prepare materials and submit applications for registration
Material available in order to efficient application
In applying for trademark registration, it shall be reported in accordance with the classification of goods and services promulgated. The application shall be submitted to the "1, 1 patterns of the trademark application" registered trademark to the Trademark Office for each trademark registration; registration of colored pattern or color combinations to apply for trademark, shall submit the coloring drawings, and submit 1 copies of black and white; not specified color, black and white drawings shall be submitted.
Dimensional mark application for trademark registration, shall be stated in the application, indicating that use of the trademarks, and submit to determine the three-dimensional shape of the pattern, the trademark design shall be submitted at least three views. Where a trademark registration is made in accordance with the color combination, it shall be declared in the application form, indicating the mode of use of the trademark.
Where a trademark is registered with a sound sign, it shall make a statement in the application, submit a sound sample in conformity with the requirements, and describe the sound trademark applied for registration, and explain how the trademark is used. Description of sound marks, should be read music notation on the application or as a trademark sound description and additional text; unable to describe the music or musical notation, should be described in the text; the trademark description should be consistent with sound samples.
Where a registered collective trademark or certification mark is applied, it shall be declared in the application, and the subject qualification certificate and the rules for the use of the trademark shall be submitted.
Where trademarks are foreign languages or contain foreign languages, the meaning shall be stated.
The trademark designs provided must be clear, easy to paste, and shall be replaced by bright and durable paper or photographs. Applicants for trademark registration may apply for registration of the same trademark for multiple categories of goods through an application.
Any registration of any application for each trademark shall be deemed to be an application, and an application for the relevant affairs shall be submitted:
(1) in the name of natural persons to apply for, you need to produce your ID card and submit individual business, personal partnership and other business entities copy of the business license;
(2) to apply for an enterprise as an applicant, it is necessary to produce a copy of the business license of the enterprise and a copy of the business license signed by the issuing authority. And submit a completed application for trademark registration with the official seal and personal signature, and prepare the corresponding registration fees required by the regulations.
Registration approach
It should be noted that the handling and entrustment of trademark agencies established according to law are somewhat different in the delivery of documents. In the book a submission, directly to the Trademark Office for the applicant shall submit the documents, should be submitted to the agency person Id photocopy; commissioned for the trademark agencies, the applicant shall submit the documents in addition to outside, should also be submitted to entrust a trademark agency for trademark registration authorization book.
In the document submission, the applicant shall, by the applicant or the handling of direct application documents will be submitted to the trademark registration hall of the admissibility of the window, because now the Trademark Office does not accept non agency agency may apply by mail; application documents will be submitted directly or by mail, courier companies to submit the Trademark Office, or via the Internet the application system of registered trademark application submitted.
Three, registration review
After submitting the application, then the review will be carried out. The first is the form of review, which is the national trademark application documents form legal review of trademark, fill in the certificate is true, accurate and clear, whether there is no standard, according to the national standard requirements, and fill in the relevant formalities are complete review of the trademark application, and then decide whether to accept the application for trademark review; review form the registration of a trademark by the Trademark Office, the trademark registration applicant will be issued "Notice of acceptance of the application for trademark registration". If it fails to meet the requirements in the time limit for correction, it will not be accepted directly. If it meets the requirements, it will go into the substantive examination. real