This year in Nanjing, want to handle the registration of trademarks is also a certain process, the registration of trademarks today should be how to do it? I brought you? Nanjing registered trademark process? The knowledge of the relevant, which may have you need.

How to register a trademark in Nanjing?

1, choose the registration method

One is to apply for registration to the State Administration for Industry and Commerce Trademark Office; the other is to entrust an experienced trademark agency organization agency services.

Note: If you do not have experience in registering trademarks, and do not understand the relevant laws and regulations, then we advise you to entrust the agency to help, which will save you a lot of time and energy. I have previously commissioned a similar agency to help me register, the commission fee is only 1,000 yuan - 300 yuan ranging,

Query

Before registering, it is best to look for a more authoritative query company, because your trademarks may be the same as the other registrants or similar, so the query before the registration can greatly reduce the risk of trademark registration, to improve the certainty of trademark registration.

Note: Because the work of searching and examining trademarks is undertaken by different people, and they may have different opinions in examining the viewpoints, the result of the trademark search cannot be taken as the final legal basis.

2, prepare the information

prepare trademark drawings 10 (specified color color trademarks, should be submitted to the 10 color drawings, black and white ink draft 1), length and width of not more than 10 centimeters, not less than 5 centimeters, the direction of the trademark drawings is unclear, the application of the arrow to indicate the upper and lower; if an individual application, you need to show your ID card and submit a copy of the individual business license plus a copy of the application. And the scope of business with the registered trademark; if the enterprise application, the enterprise "business license" copy and submit a copy; stamped with the official seal of the trademark registration application.

3, start the application

4, according to the classification of goods and services to file an application

At present, the goods and services **** is divided into 45 categories, of which 34 categories of goods, service items 11 categories. Application for registration, should be classified according to the classification of goods and services classification table to determine the use of the trademark of goods or services; the same applicant in different categories of goods using the same trademark, should be based on different categories of applications for registration.

5, the determination of the date of application

This is the most important point: because of China's trademark registration using the principle of application first, once you and other enterprises in the dispute over trademark rights, the application date of the first enterprise will be protected by law. Therefore, it is very important to establish the date of application, which is based on the date of receipt of the application by the Trademark Office.

The next three procedures are trademark examination, preliminary examination announcement, and registration announcement. It should be emphasized that, after the Trademark Office preliminary examination of the trademark, to be published in the announcement of three months after the misidentification of objections can be registered, the trademark is protected by law. The registered trademark is valid for ten years from the date of approval of registration. The expiration of the validity period, the need to continue to use, you can apply for trademark renewal registration.

6, get the trademark registration certificate

Trademark registration is completed, the Trademark Office issued a certificate to the registrant.

If it is through the agent organization by the agent to the registrant to send the "Trademark Registration Certificate"; direct registration, the registrant should be received in the "Trademark Registration Certificate Notice" within three months to the Trademark Office to collect the certificate, but also should bring: to collect the trademark registration certificate of the letter of introduction, the ID card of the consignee and a copy of the original copy of the business license and a copy of the seal stamped with the local industry and commerce department, to collect the Trademark registration certificate notification, the name of the trademark registrant change should be accompanied by a certificate of change issued by the industry and commerce department.

Note: A new application for a trademark from the application to the issuance of a certificate generally takes about one year to three and a half years, of which the application acceptance and formal examination takes about one month, the substantive examination takes about 24 to 30 months, the opposition period of three months, the approval of the public notice of the issuance of the certificate of about two months.

1, the conditions of the applicant, natural person, legal person or other organizations.

2, the conditions that the trademark should have

(1) the elements shall comply with the provisions of the law.

(1) the trademark must have a distinctive, distinctive, also known as recognizable or identifiable, that is, the trademark is unique and eye-catching, distinctive, can play a role in distinguishing goods.

(1) A trademark must not violate the prohibition clause.

(1) A trademark must not conflict with the prior rights of others.

How to choose a formal and legal agent registration company

With the continuous improvement of modern law, our legal awareness is getting stronger and stronger, and the business operation industry is developing in the direction of more and more orderly and legal. In this environment, we also need to pay more attention to their own behavior. How should we choose a formal and legal agent registration company?

The first point is that the company must be recognized by the Industrial and Commercial Bureau, with a formal business license agent registration company. If the company is not recognized by the legal process, it is usually irregular. The general public should not easily cooperate with sub-companies.

The second point is that the company has a set of detailed systems, as well as specific operational procedures, to ensure that each service is legal, and the services provided are supported by legal grounds.

The third point, the company has a certain authority in the industry, has a good reputation. And it has a stable relationship with more enterprises with long-term cooperation.

The importance of applying for a trademark in Nanjing

1, the trademark is an enterprise's logo, which can also be said to be the expression of an enterprise's culture. It represents the image of an enterprise. The protection of the trademark can make your business reputation, corporate image is protected.

2, your trademark is also your exclusive right to use things. Protected by intellectual property laws. You register a trademark and you buy a trademark is to spend a certain amount of money. Protecting your own trademark from being used by others actually protects your own property.

3, each trademark, the establishment of a famous brand, will become an appreciated commodity. When your company becomes a big company, your trademark at the same time is appreciated. This is the expected value of the trademark.

4, now say, if your trademark is not protected, people infringe, produce some other goods, such as we all know that Wahaha is a beverage company's trademark, if someone to make shoes, clothes, laundry detergent, then what kind of things will happen. If there are even some people to do some illegal to the law prohibits the production of, or proprietary production of some of the goods when what kind of situation will occur. I think you can easily see the importance of trademark protection.

Nanjing trademark registration application

(a) trademark application through the form of examination that is to enter the substantive examination procedures; if not in line with the form of examination, the Trademark Office will be sent to the agent or the applicant to make corrections to the notice or notice of admissibility, the basic admissibility to retain the date of the application, the application number, make corrections to pass into the substantive examination procedures.

(ii) the trademark application through the substantive examination, that is, into the preliminary examination and publication procedures; if not through the substantive examination, the Trademark Office will reject the trademark application or request for amendments, amendments to the qualified and then enter the preliminary examination and publication.

(3) trademark from the date of preliminary examination and announcement of three months, if no one filed objections or ruled that the objections can not be established, into the approval of the registration of the announcement process and the issuance of certificates; if ruled that the objections are established, the Trademark Office will be rejected the trademark application.

Nanjing registered trademark process