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How to apply for trademark registration in Korea?
1. How to register a Korean trademark? 1) trademark design-design your own trademark before applying for registration of a Korean trademark. 2) Trademark inquiry-inquiry service (free); It can also be a customer self-service inquiry or a professional inquiry. Provide simple trademark inquiry report; 3) Trademark application-trademark registration application documents shall be submitted to the Korean Intellectual Property Office. 4) Trademark acceptance-The Trademark Registry sends a receipt with the acceptance number to the applicant. (Notice of Acceptance by Korea Patent Office on the day of application) 5) Trademark review-Trademark review is divided into two processes: formal review and substantive review. 6) Trademark announcement-A trademark will be announced after three months of examination, and anyone can raise an objection to the trademark. 7) Trademark registration-there is no objection to the trademark announcement or the trademark objection is ruled invalid, or the trademark registration is successful. In general, it takes about 12- 15 months to get a trademark 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. Second, the required information 1) The power of attorney for trademark registration must be signed or sealed by the client; 2) Name of the applicant (if the applicant is a legal person, a copy of the business license with a clear official seal shall be provided; If the applicant is a natural person, he/she needs to provide a copy of his/her ID card and a business license of individual industrial and commercial households with a clear official seal (copy or scanned copy), and foreigners only need to provide a passport); 3) the address of the applicant (the application address of the applicant as a legal person must be consistent with the address on the business license); 4) Clear trademark pattern; 5) Goods or services for which registration is applied. Trademark review procedure 1. The formal examination shall be accepted within half a month after the application is submitted. Formal review shall be conducted within 1 month after accepting the application, and the application that does not meet the requirements shall be corrected within a certain period of time. If the corrected content meets the requirements, it will enter the substantive examination procedure, and the licensing authority who makes the corrections that do not meet the requirements may declare the trademark registration application invalid. 2. The substantive examination generally takes 12 ~ 14 months from the application to the end of the actual trial. If the examiner thinks that the application for registration meets the approval criteria after examination, he shall make an announcement on the application for trademark registration. If it does not meet the examination and approval standards, it shall notify the applicant and ask him to state his opinions within the prescribed time limit. If the comments or corrections meet the conditions for approval and registration, the application for trademark registration shall be announced, and if it still does not meet the conditions for approval and registration, a decision shall be made to reject it. Any enterprise can register the corresponding trademark when it re-registers, and the trademark is also beneficial to the development of the enterprise. When registering an enterprise trademark, it is necessary not only to put forward the design of the trademark, but also to submit other relevant materials, so it can also be registered through a professional agency. At the same time, trademarks have a certain period of use, which must be renewed six months before the expiration.