How To Improve The Efficiency Of Registered Trademarks?

According to the feedback statistics of China Trademark Office, there are more than 10000 applications for trademark registration every day. It is not easy to register a trademark. How to achieve trademark registration in the Internet + era?

If your trademark is a graphic + text, cypress suggests separate registration to reduce the risk of dissenting and dissenting, and you can combine the graphic and text labels in use.

When a trademark is applied, it is recommended to submit it in black and white pattern without specifying color. In future, trademark color can be adjusted according to need.

Before registration

The risk of rejection and objection can be effectively reduced, so as to reduce the annoyance in the registration process.

The company has designed a new trademark and the registration application is very important, so that it can not only avoid many troubles in the trial, but also add an intangible asset to the company. Then, how should a company register its trademark? What are the specific steps?

1. trademark search.

It refers to whether the trademark registration applicant or his agent has the same or approximate query on whether the trademark applied for is registered with the prior right trademark before applying for registration.

It is worth noting that although trademark inquiry is not a necessary procedure for a registered trademark (following the principle of voluntary inquiry), this work can greatly reduce the risk of trademark registration and enhance the certainty of trademark registration.

2. submit applications.

The application can be submitted after the confirmation of enquiry. During this period, relevant registration materials need to be prepared and submitted to the trademark office. Besides application for trademark registration, application materials include copies of business licenses, etc.

3. accept applications.

Under normal circumstances, within one month after the application is submitted, a notice of application for registration will be received by the trademark office. After receiving the notice, the company can start to use the trademark in a small scope. Note that the trademark "TM" is used to indicate that the trademark is being registered in the application.

4. substantive review.

Substantive examination is the trademark registration authority's trademark.

Whether it is in conformity with the provisions of the trademark law, a series of activities such as inspection, data retrieval, analysis and comparison, investigation and research, and preliminary approval or rejection of the application are the important stages for deciding whether or not a trademark is registered.

5. registration notice.

After the substantive examination of the trademark is finished, the trademark passed will be entered into the announcement stage of three months. If there is no application for objection in the announcement period, the announcement of approval registration will be issued.

6. approves registration and issue certificates.

The steps of the company's trademark registration are basically those contents. Of course, sometimes the trademark application is not successfully rejected. At this point, applicant company can choose whether to enter the next step, that is, the trademark rejects the review stage.