What is international trademark registration and how many years is the validity period of a registered trademark?
Since trademark rights have regional characteristics, one way to protect your trademark abroad is to register your trademark internationally. and apply to relevant countries for territorial extension.
First, Applicants should apply to the Trademark Office of the State Administration for Industry and Commerce. The application documents include: a completed application form for international registration in China (the application form is provided by our company),The application must be stamped with the official seal and domestic trademark registration certificate (or preliminary approval announcement) One copy, power of attorney, and two trademark drawings,If it is a color trademark,Two colored trademark images are required.
The Trademark Office has completed the receipt procedures After submitting the application documents, the application date is registered, the application number is compiled, the fees required by the applicant are calculated, and a "Charge Notice" is sent to the applicant.
After the applicant receives the "Charge Notice" , the fee should be paid in the amount as soon as possible. The Trademark Office will submit the application to the International Bureau only after receiving the full amount of remittance. If the Trademark Office has not received the remittance after two months, it will return the application documents and other attachments to the applicant, and the application date and application number will no longer be retained.
Applicants should be reminded here that if the International Bureau receives a trademark registration application submitted by the Trademark Office within the specified time limit from the date the Trademark Office receives the international registration application, the date of receipt by the Trademark Office will be the international registration application date. The date of receipt by the International Bureau is the date of international registration of the trademark; if the International Bureau receives the application two months later, the International Bureau will regard the date of receipt of the application by the International Bureau as the date of receipt and the date of international registration.
If the applicant wants to designate a country for protection both There are "Agreement" member states and "Protocol" member states, but the trademark applied for registration in this country has not yet been registered, orThe reporter said that the application has just been submitted. In this case, we suggest that the applicant can first apply for international registration in a member country of the "Protocol", and then file a later application for territorial extension with a member country of the "Protocol" after the trademark is registered in the country. In this way, you can apply for international trademark registration immediately without wasting time, and obtain trademark registration protection as soon as possible, especially when the international registration application is registered domestically
Article 39 of the "Trademark Law of the People's Republic of China" The validity period of a registered trademark is ten years, calculated from the date of approval of registration.
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