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Can individuals apply for trademark registration?
After the revision of China's Trademark Law, it is stipulated that if a natural person, legal person or other organization needs to obtain the exclusive right to use a trademark for the goods it produces, manufactures, processes, selects and distributes, it shall apply to the Trademark Office for trademark registration of the goods; Where a natural person, legal person or other organization needs to obtain the exclusive right to use a trademark for the services it provides, it shall apply to the Trademark Office for registration of a service trademark. Therefore, individuals can apply for trademark registration.
The process of individual applying for trademark registration
1. Design the trademark to be registered in advance. Including logo, Chinese and English names.
2. Determine the scope of use of the trademark. Trademarks are divided into 45 categories, and each category is further divided into subcategories. It is necessary to determine the specific scope of use and product name of the registered trademark.
3. Check whether the trademark is pre-registered. Go to the website of the State Administration for Industry and Commerce to check whether the trademark has been registered. If it has been registered, it is necessary to change the trademark before submitting it. You can also submit a registration application without registration.
4. Submit materials to the local industrial and commercial bureau. To register a trademark, an individual needs to submit two copies of his ID card, six designs of the trademark and an application for trademark registration with his own signature. Pay a fee of 1000 yuan to the Trademark Office, and the fee will not be refunded whether it is passed or not.
5. Waiting for the examination of the Trademark Office. It usually takes 12 ~ 16 months to get the results.
6. Publicity period. After passing the preliminary examination of the Trademark Office, that is, entering the three-month publicity period, anyone can raise any objection, and the registration can be successful without objection. If there is any objection, you should reply to the trademark objection, and you can successfully register after the reply is passed.
7. Publication of trademarks. After passing the publicity period, the Trademark Office will issue a document announcing that the trademark has been successfully registered and can be used. At this time, the trademark is protected by law.
What are the ways to apply for trademark registration?
Where a natural person, legal person or other organization needs to obtain the exclusive right to use a trademark for goods or services produced, manufactured, processed, selected or distributed, it shall file an application for trademark registration with the Trademark Office of the State Administration for Industry and Commerce (hereinafter referred to as the Trademark Office) according to law.
There are three ways to apply for registration of a commodity trademark or a service trademark:
(1) Entrust a nationally recognized trademark agency to handle it.
(2) The applicant goes directly to the trademark registration hall of the Trademark Office.
(3) Online application.
Foreigners or foreign enterprises must entrust a trademark agency to handle trademark registration in China, except for foreigners or foreign enterprises with habitual residence or business office in China.
What should we pay attention to in trademark design?
1, avoid imitation.
Imitating or partially imitating other people's trademarks will make your own trademarks lose their originality.
2, easy to read and remember.
We should not only give full consideration to easy recognition and memory, but also pay attention to the fact that words or graphics are too simple and lose their distinctive features.
3. Reflect creativity.
It should be associated with the goods or services specified by the trademark, which reminds people of the characteristics of the goods or services and fully embodies the intention of the trademark.
4, clear priorities.
Trademarks should be coordinated with packaging and decoration design, and should not be designed as buttons and placed in an inconspicuous position. Trademark should occupy a prominent central position in packaging, and the whole decoration design should take trademark as the core, so as not to usurp the host's role, otherwise it will be difficult to play the shopping-oriented role of trademark.
What are the distinctive features of trademarks?
The distinctive features of trademarks refer to the identifiability and uniqueness of trademarks, which can easily distinguish goods and services containing other trademarks. Consumers can distinguish the source, characteristics and information of goods or services by virtue of this trademark feature.
Generally speaking, the following trademarks are considered to have no distinctive features:
(1) Take the commodity names, signs and graphics commonly used in this industry as trademarks;
(two) the use of words and graphics related to the goods as trademarks;
(3) using words or graphics indicating the quality, main raw materials, functions and uses of goods as trademarks;
(4) using place names as trademarks (note: there are exceptions);
(5) The characters and graphics of the trademark are too complicated or graphics with various titles are used;
(6) All or the main part of a trademark consists of two or less numbers or letters (such as straight lines, curves, regular triangles or circles) written in extremely simple geometric figures and ordinary fonts;
(7) It is also considered insignificant to use the unified special symbols promulgated by the state or industry as trademarks.
The distinctiveness of a trademark is not absolute. Although attention should be paid to distinctiveness in trademark design, whether a single trademark has distinctive features depends largely on the use situation.
The above is the Certificate of Self-application for Trademark Registration provided by Bian Xiao. I hope everyone will like it!
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