the registration of catering trademarks is divided into three categories, including meat and vegetable products, flour and cereal products, and provision of food and beverage services.
There are three categories of registered catering trademarks, as follows:
1. Meat and vegetable products, mainly including meat food, vegetables for daily use or storage and other edible horticultural products;
2. Flour and cereal products mainly include food from plants for daily use or storage, as well as seasoning;
3. Providing food and beverage services and temporary accommodation, including providing food and beverage services for consumers by individuals or institutions, and providing services for getting beds and boarding in hotels, boarding houses or other institutions providing temporary accommodation.
The process of food and beverage trademark registration:
1. Trademark inquiry, you can choose to go to a professional trademark registration agency platform for inquiry, or you can choose to go to the local trademark office for trademark inquiry;
2. To prepare the trademark registration document, you need to provide a copy of the company's business license, a copy of the identity of the trademark applicant, a trademark design and an application for trademark registration;
3. Trademark form review. If it meets the requirements, an acceptance notice will be issued. If it fails to meet the application conditions, the application will be rejected and the applicant needs to resubmit the application requirements.
4. substantive examination of trademarks, including inquiring whether there are identical or similar trademarks, whether the information in the application materials is true and whether the requirements for registration can meet the provisions of the trademark law;
5. The announcement period of a trademark is 3 months. If there is no objection or the objection is ruled to be unfounded, the Trademark Office of China will approve the registration and issue a trademark registration certificate.
to sum up, the trademark registration of restaurants is an important step to protect the brand image and intellectual property rights of restaurants. Its process mainly includes preparing application materials, submitting applications, preliminary examination, substantive examination and announcement. First of all, you need to prepare the trademark application, trademark design, trademark classification and other necessary materials. Then, submit the application materials to the Trademark Office and pay the corresponding fees. The Trademark Office will conduct a preliminary examination to check whether the application materials are complete. If it passes the preliminary examination, the application will enter the substantive examination stage, and the Trademark Office will evaluate the registrability of the trademark. If the application meets the requirements of the Trademark Law and does not conflict with the registered trademark, the Trademark Office will make an announcement. After the expiration of the announcement, if there is no objection, the trademark will obtain a registration certificate. In the process of trademark registration in restaurants, we should also pay attention to the legality, uniqueness and business relevance of trademarks.
Legal basis:
Article 8 of the Trademark Law of the People's Republic of China
Any mark, including characters, figures, letters, numbers, three-dimensional marks, color combinations and sounds, which can distinguish the goods of natural persons, legal persons or other organizations from those of others, and the combination of the above elements can be applied for registration as a trademark. Article 9 A trademark applied for registration shall have distinctive features and be easy to identify, and shall not conflict with the legal rights previously obtained by others. Trademark registrants have the right to indicate "registered trademarks" or registration marks.