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What is a Trademark?
You need to understand the importance of registering your trade mark. Register a trademark can limiting and hopefully preventing consumer confusion.
A registered trade mark can shows the distinctiveness of the good or services from others. Powerful branding can be a valuable component of any business.
Before you apply a trade mark registration, there are two questions which you must know the answers.
(1) Is the trade mark identical or similar than other registered or applying marks?
This is critical as a main reason of official objection from trademark offices. We ensure to run a preliminary trademark research that disclosed all the earlier trademark registered record may effect on your coming applications.
(2) Which jurisdictions (countries) should you register?
With the registration, the owner (person or company) becomes the owner of the trademark. The registration is given for a particular country/territory, for certain products or services and for a specific term. While the registration is in force, only the owner may use the trademark in the market where the trademark is registered.
Free Trademark Searching
Once you confirmed the services of charges of the required trademark services, the consultants will run a preliminary trademark search within Two working days. However, there are certain of jurisdictions do not share the trademark databases via online platform that we cannot offer the searching services. A preliminary trademark search report allow our clients to understand the potential risk of the coming applications and you reserves the right to suspend the further process without any charges if the report has shown earlier marks or similar marks which will effect on the trademark registration.
With the registration, the owner (person or company) becomes the owner of the trademark. The registration is given for a particular country/territory, for certain products or services and for a specific term. While the registration is in force, only the owner may use the trademark in the market where the trademark is registered.
Validity of a Registered Trademark:
1. In many jurisdictions, the registered trademark will be valid for ten years commencing from the date on which the registration is approved.
2. An application for renewal of registration must be made within six months
before the expiration, if the registered trademark is needed for use after it
is expired.
It is time to provide your trade mark to us for a free initial searching result.
Types of trademark:
- A brand name
- A business name
- A color
- A logo
- A package design
- A smell
- A slogan
General Requirement:
Trademark logo (JPG or PDF format) and
trademark words. If any specified colors,
pantone must be provided.Business Registration (BR) or ID cards of
trademark owner.Contact person(including telephone, fax, and
email and correspondence address ).
3 Steps of registration of a trademark:
Step 1 Comprehensive Study:
Report that includes the search and analysis of the registration probabilities of a trademark
Step 2 Registration Request:
Filing the trademark application before others submitted the registration’s request.
Step 3 Registration Certificate:
Issuance of the trademark registration certificate and forwarding the documentation to the registrant. A report with the trademark registration details is included.
- Application
Upon receipt of the trademark application, Hong Kong Intellectual Property Department will issue a receipt notifying us the alloted application number.
- Deficiencies Checking
Before beginning to examine your application, examiners will carry out a thorough check of the application form(s) and any attachments.
- Search & Examination
Examiners will conduct a search of the trademarks records to see if the same or similar trademark has already been registered or been applied for by others.
- Publication of Trademark
Once your trademark has been accepted for registration, it is published in the Hong Kong Intellectual Property Journal
- Registration
Once your trademark has been accepted for registration, the Registrar of Trade Marks will enter the details of your trademark into the trademarks register and you will be issued with a certificate of registration.
If there are no deficiencies in the application and no objections to the trademark then the whole application process can take as little as 6 months from receipt of application to registration. If there is an official refusal or objection from a third party, your application will go through to hearing stage which will take longer for the registration and may cause an unsuccessful registration.
- Application
Upon receipt of the trademark application Trademark Office of The State Administration for Industry and Commerce (SAIC) PRC will issue a return receipt notifying us the alloted application number and the filing receipt will issue within two months after the filing.
- Deficiencies Checking
Before beginning to examine your application, examiners will carry out a thorough check of the application form(s) and any attachments.
- Search & Examination
Examiners will conduct a search of the trademarks records to see if the same or similar trademark has already been registered or been applied for by others.
- Publication of Trademark
Once your trademark has been accepted for registration, it is published in the SAIC Journal
- Registration
Once your trademark has been accepted for registration, the Registrar of Trade Marks will enter the details of your trademark into the trademarks register and you will be issued with a certificate of registration.
If there are no deficiencies in the application and no objections to the trademark then the whole application process can take as little as 8 months from receipt of application to registration. If there is an official refusal or objection from a third party, your application will go through to hearing stage which will take longer for the registration and may cause an unsuccessful registration.
