In today's well-established society, you need to pay attention to certain procedures and rules, such as trademark registration, but different places have different regulations and processes. Today, the lawyer will talk to you about the process of trademark registration in Jinan. I believe that after reading this article, you will have different gains and experiences. Please read on for details. I. Provisions on the process and time of trademark registration 1. Design-Before applying for trademark registration, we can entrust our company or design it ourselves. Trademark design should pay attention to the following points: (1) originality, that is, trademark design should be innovative; On the one hand, it is necessary to meet the requirements of distinctiveness, on the other hand, creative trademarks are easy to expand the popularity of goods and quickly occupy the market. (2) The name of a trademark should avoid being associated with the function of the commodity. (3) The design of trademarks should highlight the theme and make a reasonable layout. 2. Inquiry-Trademark inquiry usually refers to the inquiry about trademark information made by the applicant for trademark registration before applying for registered trademark, in order to know whether there is a prior trademark right that may conflict with his application for registered trademark. It takes a long time for a trademark to apply for registration. If the application for trademark registration is rejected, on the one hand, the trademark registration fee will be lost, on the other hand, it will take longer to reapply for registered trademarks, and it is still unknown whether the reapplication can be approved for registration. Therefore, before applying for a registered trademark, the applicant had better make a trademark inquiry to understand the prior rights. There are two kinds of query services: one is internal query service; The other is 7- 14 working days for government inquiry service. 3. Application-The application documents for trademark registration shall be submitted to the Intellectual Property Department of Hong Kong. 4. Acceptance-After receiving the application materials for trademark registration, Hong Kong Intellectual Property Department will give an application number and issue an acceptance notice, which will take about one week. 5. Examination-Trademark examination is divided into two processes: formal examination and substantive examination. Formal examination means that before examining the application, the Trademark Registration Office will carefully examine the application and all its attachments to see whether the required parts in the form have been filled in, whether the relevant information is correct and whether the required information is incomplete. If everything is ready, the application procedure will enter the next stage (substantive examination stage). Substantive examination means that the Trademark Registration Office searches the trademark records after checking the shortcomings of the application and making sure that all the information is complete, so as to determine whether other businesses have registered or applied for the registration of the same or similar trademarks for the same or similar goods or services. At the same time, the Trademark Registry will check whether the relevant trademarks meet the registration requirements of the Trade Marks Ordinance. If approved, the application procedure will enter the next stage (gazetting and announcement stage). 6. Announcement-After the application is approved by the Trademark Registry, it will be announced in the Hong Kong Intellectual Property Bulletin for a period of three months. If no one raises an objection, the trademark can be successfully registered. 7. Registration-If there is no objection to the trademark announcement or the objection is not established after the ruling, the registration is successful. In general, it takes about 6 months to obtain the registration certificate. After successful registration, the validity period is 10 year, and the fee can be renewed on time in the first half of the expiration. 2. What are the procedures for trademark registration in Jinan? Trademark registration is only divided into domestic and international registration. What are the same procedures for trademark registration in Jinan as in domestic regions? But we should make other preparations for trademark application. (1) Preliminary work 1. Select the trademark name to be registered (Chinese, English, graphic); 2. Be qualified as a company or individual industrial and commercial household, and within the effective annual inspection period (the business scope of individual industrial and commercial households must be consistent with the registered category) 3. Clear trademark standard samples; (2) trademark registration application process: 1. Acceptance of the Notice of Trademark Registration (it can be expedited or according to the normal process). 2. Examination: (about one year) The Trademark Office will examine whether the relevant trademarks are significant and meet the registration conditions stipulated by China Trademark Law and other laws and regulations. If passed, the application process will enter the next stage: the preliminary examination announcement stage. Newspaper announcement: (about three months) If no one raises an objection, the trademark can be registered successfully. 4. Registration: A registration certificate will be issued to the applicant, and the registration date will be traced back to the date of application submission. In other words, the rights of the registered trademark owner are calculated from the date of filing the application. To sum up, for such a problem, we know what are the processes of trademark registration in Jinan. Trademark registration is only divided into domestic and international registration. What are the same procedures for trademark registration in Jinan as in domestic regions? However, if you want to make other preparations for trademark application and follow the procedures, the result will not be too bad.