How Long Does A Trademark Registration Take?

The applicant pays attention to time, which means that time cost is very important.

But the answer to the question is not satisfactory. Trademark registration from application to registration certificate takes 12 to 15 months.

Whenever they tell the applicant the time, they will be very surprised and ask, "why do I have to spend so much time?"

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In the process, you will encounter the following several big problems.

The pain of registered trademarks

1, naming is difficult.

China's trademark applications increased year by year. In 2015, the number of trademark applications was 2 million 876 thousand, and the number of trademark applications in 2016 reached 3 million 691 thousand, an increase of 28.4%.

Except weekends and holidays.

The number of trademark applications received per working day is over 10 thousand, and the number is very alarming.

There are more than 80 thousand Chinese characters, but there are about 4000 commonly used Chinese characters.

The trademark of two words is almost impossible to register, and the three words can be applied for less and less trademarks.

Therefore, the applicant wants names after batch of queries. After being querying, the applicant has been registered or there is an approximate situation, which can not be registered.

It is difficult to name a trademark, and to describe it in a poem is "the difficulty of Shu Road, and it is hard to go up to the blue sky!"

Trademark from application to entry inquiry system, to the Trademark Bureau official website inquiry system can be found, it takes about five months.

Therefore, during the five months before querying the trademark, neither the agency nor the trademark office could query it. This is called the query blindness, because there are many rejecting similar trademarks in the blind period.

Even if the trademark is examined by the Trademark Office, the preliminary announcement will be granted, but the announcement period will be three months. The relevant stakeholders may raise objections to the trademark of the announcement period. If the reason and evidence are sufficient, the trademark will be rejected.

This is called the objection period.

This is an objective problem and legal process. It is a risk that no one can avoid.

3, long time

The trademark application will be examined through several links of the trademark office.

1. form review: about 15-20 days.

2. substantive review: about 6-10 months.

3. initial notice period: 3 months

4. issuing registration certificate: about 1 months.

In today's Internet era, trademark makes it possible for enterprises to increase their value rapidly. Some well-known trademarks are far more valuable than tangible assets.

Intangible assets are the basis, tangible assets are used, assets scale is only a prop for winning the reputation of products, the cost of tangible assets, the sunk cost of intangible assets, the substantial change of tangible assets, and the increase of intangible assets by fission.

The less the tangible assets are, the more the intangible assets will be divided. The visible assets will increase at the order of magnitude, and the intangible assets will increase at the geometric level.

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Recently, the reporter learned from the Wuxi Municipal Bureau of industry and commerce that the Wuxi trademark acceptance window set up by the State Administration for Industry and Commerce of Wuxi on the first floor hall of the industrial and commercial bureau was approved by the Inspection Bureau of the General Administration of industry and commerce.

This means that any natural person, enterprise juridical person or other organization who wants to register a trademark in the future does not have to go to Beijing in a long way to make an application, nor does it need to find a trademark agency.

Wuxi industry and Commerce Bureau staff introduction, the State Administration for Industry and Commerce Wuxi trademark acceptance window officially run, its main responsibility is to carry out trademark registration related matters advisory services.

At the same time, the application documents and materials for trademark registration of natural persons, legal persons and other organizations shall be received for formal examination and acceptance. They shall be responsible for the issuance of trademark admissibility documents, and the receipt and issuance of all kinds of documents issued by the trademark office.

After the acceptance window is launched, the registration will be greatly increased in the two stages of submission of application and form examination, and the application fee will also be reduced.

It is understood that as of 2016, the total number of effective registered trademarks in Wuxi exceeded 101 thousand, with 83 well-known trademarks, 650 famous trademarks in Jiangsu and 1346 famous trademarks in Wuxi.

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