What should individuals pay attention to when applying for trademark registration? 1. Ask about the trademark first. If there is no identical or similar trademark in advance, you can make application documents and submit the application;
2. About 1 month after the application is submitted, the Trademark Office will send you an application acceptance notice within ten working days (this period is called the formal examination stage).
3. After the formal review is completed, it will take about 1 year to enter the substantive review stage.
4. Those who pass the substantive examination shall enter the announcement procedure (this period is 3 months, also called the objection period);
5. When the announcement expires, no one raises any objection. You can get the registration certificate.
How do individuals apply for trademark registration? Application route:
1. You can go to the registration hall of the Trademark Office (Beijing) in person.
2. You can entrust a trademark agency to handle it.
Application fee:
Need to pay an official fee of 1000 yuan to the Trademark Office; If you entrust an agent, you need to pay an agency fee of about 600-800 yuan to the agency.
Information required for application:
1, trademark pattern is required;
2, the scope of goods or services used by the registered trademark;
3. Identification documents: A. If the company applies, a copy of the company's business license is required; B. Personal application: A copy of the business license and personal ID card of individual industrial and commercial households is required.
What are the materials for applying for trademark registration? To apply for a registered trademark, the following materials shall be submitted:
1. The applicant must submit an application for trademark registration in accordance with the principle of one trademark application for one commodity. In other words, the goods or services declared by an application can only be limited to one category in the international classification of goods and services registered by trademarks. Where a trademark agency is entrusted to handle the matter on its behalf, a copy of the power of attorney for trademark agency shall also be submitted. The application for trademark registration and the power of attorney for trademark agency must be stamped with the seal of the applicant, and the name of the applicant should be exactly the same as the name of the enterprise approved for registration. At the same time, according to the provisions of the Trademark Law, the category and name of the goods using the trademark shall be filled in according to the prescribed commodity classification table. Applications should be filled in with pens and brushes, and typewriters are encouraged to print. The handwriting should conform to the specifications and be neat and clear.
2. Trademark pattern 10 (color trademark with specified color shall be submitted with 10 color pattern and 1 black and white ink draft). The provided trademark pattern must be clear and easy to stick, and replaced by bright and durable paper or photos, with the length and width not exceeding 10 cm and not less than 5 cm. If the direction of the trademark pattern is not clear, it should be indicated by an arrow. When applying for trademarks of cigarettes and cigars, the design can be as big as the actual use.
3 produce a copy of the business license of the enterprise or provide a copy of the business license signed by the issuing authority. The goods or services declared at the time of application shall not exceed the approved or registered business scope. If a group company or multinational company wants to register a trademark in the name of the applicant, and its registered business license indicates that its business scope includes the business scope of its subsidiaries or branches, it may provide a copy of its business license.
4. If a natural person applies for trademark registration, he/she needs to submit a copy of his/her ID card instead of a copy of his/her business license. Other aspects are the same as the company's application for registration.
5. Trademark application shall be in Chinese, and foreign language documents shall be accompanied by Chinese translation.
6. Where a portrait of a person is used as a trademark to apply for registration, the applicant must provide a power of attorney from the owner of the portrait, which shall be notarized by a notary office.
7. Where a foreign applicant claims priority, he must fill in the country, date and application number of the initial application in the application form, and submit the documents claiming priority to the Trademark Office within three months. If it is not submitted within the time limit, its priority request is invalid.
What are the constitutive requirements of a trademark stipulated in Article 8 of China's Trademark Law? Any visible sign that can distinguish the goods of natural persons, legal persons or other organizations from the goods of others, including words, graphics, letters, numbers, three-dimensional signs and color combinations, and the combination of the above elements, can apply for registration as a trademark. ? According to this regulation, a trademark can be composed of words, graphics, letters, numbers, three-dimensional signs and color combinations and any combination of these things. In other words, a trademark can be composed of words alone, such as? Master Kong? Brand instant noodles? Wahaha? Brand mineral water; Or it can only be composed of letters, such as famous computer brands? IBM？ It consists of three letters and is used by Lenovo Group. Lenovo? It is also composed of letters alone. Is there anything else in Jiangsu? AB？ Brand underwear trademark; Trademarks consisting only of numbers are rare. What is more famous? 555? Brand cigarettes.
Combination trademarks are more common combinations of words and graphics, such as wine? The Great Wall? The trademark is a circular pattern composed of China Great Wall and Great Wall graphics. Laoganma? Does the trademark have a personal portrait? Laoganma? Of course, the composition of characters is more complicated, with Chinese and English graphics and color distinction, so I won't give examples here. The use of three-dimensional signs and color combinations to register trademarks is an added part of trademarks after the revision of the Trademark Law. At present, few such trademarks are used in the market. It can also be registered as a trademark with sound and smell abroad, but it is not allowed to use these in China at present.
What kind of registered trademark should I use? The characters, letters, figures, numbers and other elements stipulated in China's trademark law are enough for us to give full play to our imagination and combine them into various trademarks at will. The more opportunities you have to choose, the more confused you are. The main function of a trademark is differentiation, and the only requirement for a trademark is distinctiveness. Whether using words or graphics or their combination, there is only one purpose, that is, striking, easy to remember, easy to identify and remember as soon as possible, which is actually the minimum requirement of meaning. In fact, the requirement of distinctiveness is very low, but in reality some trademarks are rejected by the Trademark Office because they do not have distinctiveness. Generally speaking, a trademark is only composed of one or two simple letters or one or two simple numbers, which will be considered as lacking in significance because it is too simple. If a graphic trademark uses simple lines or simple geometric figures as trademarks, it will also be considered as lacking in distinctiveness.
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