Detailed process of Foshan registered trademark registration I. Formal review
After formal examination, if the application procedures are complete and the application documents are filled in accordance with the regulations, the Trademark Office will issue a notice of acceptance.
If the application procedures are incomplete or the application documents are not filled in as required, a notice of rejection shall be issued and returned, and the application date shall not be retained.
If the application procedures are basically complete or the application documents basically meet the requirements, but need to be corrected, the Trademark Office will issue the Notice of Correction of Trademark Registration Application. If the applicant makes corrections within the time limit and returns them to the Trademark Office, the date of application shall be kept; If it is not corrected or corrected within the time limit, the Trademark Office will issue a notice of rejection and return it, and the application date will not be retained.
Trademark registration process II. Substantive inspection
Trademark applications enter substantive examination after passing formal examination. After substantive examination, the Trademark Office shall preliminarily examine and approve the trademark application that meets the relevant provisions of the Trademark Law and make an announcement.
If the application is rejected, a notice of rejection shall be issued to the applicant.
If the Trademark Office considers that the contents of the application for trademark registration can be modified, it shall issue an examination opinion. If the applicant gives a reply within the time limit, the Trademark Office will continue the examination.
A trademark that has been preliminarily examined and approved shall be announced by the China Trademark Office in the Trademark Announcement.
Within three months from the date of announcement, anyone may raise an objection to the trademark preliminarily approved by the China Trademark Office.
If it is ruled that there is no objection or the objection is untenable, the China Trademark Office will approve the registration, issue a trademark registration certificate, and make an announcement in the Trademark Announcement; If the objection is established, the registration shall not be approved.
Review request
In the process of trademark registration, if the applicant is not satisfied with the rejection of the trademark registration application by the Trademark Office, he may request a reexamination to the Trademark Review and Adjudication Board. The Trademark Review and Adjudication Board shall make a final decision on approval or disapproval of registration and notify the applicant in writing. If a party refuses to accept the objection ruling of the Trademark Office, he may request a review to the Trademark Review and Adjudication Board. The Trademark Review and Adjudication Board shall make a final decision and notify the parties in writing.
What are the rules for Foshan trademark registration process and time? 1, design? Before applying for trademark registration, you can entrust our company or design it yourself. 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. query? Trademark inquiry usually refers to the inquiry about trademark information made by the applicant for trademark registration in order to know whether there is a prior trademark right that may conflict with the trademark he applied for registration. 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. apply? The application documents for trademark registration shall be submitted to the Intellectual Property Department of Hong Kong.
4. accepted? After receiving the application materials for trademark registration, the Intellectual Property Department of Hong Kong will give an application number and issue an acceptance notice, which will take about one week.
5. review? Trademark review is divided into two processes: formal review and substantive review. 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 published in the Hong Kong Intellectual Property Gazette for three months. If no one raises an objection, the trademark can be successfully registered.
7. sign up? 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.
What suggestions do you have for trademark design in Foshan? 1, take a nice English name.
In fact, it is necessary for an enterprise to take a name composed of English letters in order to go international and operate internationally. This is because of the internationalization of the enterprise, and the logos and standard language of the enterprise are easily recognized, accepted and pronounced by as many people as possible around the world. That is, people from any region, color, race and culture can recognize it.
Because English letters and Arabic numerals are symbols recognized by intellectuals of different nationalities, cultures and skin colors all over the world, corporate logos and standard characters with English letters as elements must be universally applicable and universal. With the exception of English letters, the logo composed of any other elements has strong regional and national characteristics, which increases the difficulty of communication and makes it difficult to be famous all over the world.
Japan's Sony, Panasonic, Honda, Toyota, Germany's Siemens and Sweden's Ericsson all use non-native English letters as company names and brand names.
2. Local languages (cultural languages) and English are registered separately.
One registration is economical, but separate registration will bring great flexibility. Among well-known brands in various countries, it is very rare to be registered in one place.
3. The uniqueness of trademark is very important.
The logo composed of trademark elements is generally a word, which does not exist before you use it.
In trademark examination, this question is called? Meaning? That is uniqueness. This is a problem that puzzles many people in China. Everyone likes to choose familiar words, such as? Lenovo? 、? China? 、? The Great Wall? Wait, actually these are all bad trademark ideas.
The connotation and information contained in the word enterprise trademark should all be about this enterprise. When the public's audio-visual perception comes into contact with this sign, the information reflected in their minds is all about this enterprise, and there will never be other miscellaneous information that interferes with the information dissemination of the enterprise. On the contrary, if the word exists and is meaningful, then when the public comes into contact with the word, the information reflected by the word in their minds will be difficult to understand, thus affecting the accurate and clear external communication of enterprise information.
This brand name difference is not easy to protect, and it will also lead to ambiguity. Sometimes a word is positive in the United States, but it may be derogatory in Islamic countries, which does not conform to the principle of the world. Like at home? Sailing carpet encountered great obstacles in the process of going out because of sailing. Garbage? Besides sailing, it also refers to garbage and rags. The white elephant battery in Shanghai has the same experience, because? awhiteelephant？ what's up Useless stuff? . It can be seen that a universally applicable international brand name is best an English word that has no meaning in itself. Examples are IBM and Rejoice.
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