Xiamen Trademark Registration Service
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Xiamen Trademark Registry will give you the exclusive right to use your brand name in Xiamen. It is also a legal way for business people to protect the trademark. ATAHK will offer you professional and whole-hearted services about Xiamen trademark registry.
Xiamen Trademark Registry – Overview of Xiamen Trademark Registry
The Chinese Trademark Office accepts trademark applications for registry on goods as well as on services. Applications for registry of certificate marks and collective marks are also accepted.
The trademark can be letters, designs or a combination of both. Shapes of goods or scent are not registrable.
The Chinese Trademark Office adopts the International Classification of Goods and Services, and multi-class application is still not applicable, one application can only for one mark in one class. The descriptions of the goods/services should be concrete.
Examination is based on absolute ground and relative ground. Before registry, there is a period of three (3) months for public opposition purpose.
Xiamen Trademark Registry – Procedures of Xiamen Trademark Registry
(1)Xiamen Trademark Design
(2) Xiamen Trademark Search
(3) Xiamen Trademark Application
(4) Acceptance of Xiamen Trademark Application
(5) Xiamen Trademark Examination
(6) Xiamen Trademark Publication
(7)Xiamen Trademark Registry
Xiamen Trademark Registry – Requirements of Xiamen Trademark Registry
China trademark registry application has to be filed before the Trademark Office by a local agent. A signed power of attorney is necessary. Foreign applicants do not need a domestic company registry. Foreign applicants can only file through an officially recognized agent. A copy of the business certificate (if the applicant is a company) or a copy of the applicant’s ID card or passport (if the applicant is an individual) is required. NOTE: 1 class covers 10 class items. For each additional class item beyond the 10th item for each class there is an extra fee.
In applying for trademark registry, the following documents should be submitted to the relevant authorities: Application for Trademark Registry, power of attorney, five copies of the reproductions of the trademark (if color is claimed, five copies of the color reproductions of the trademark), one copy of the black and white design thereof, and identification documents. The reproductions of the trademark must be clear and easy to be pasted up and should be printed on smooth and clear durable paper or substituted by photographs, the length and width of which should be less than 10 cm but more than 5 cm each.
Xiamen Trademark Registry –Validity Period and Renewal of Registered Xiamen Trademark
The period of validity of a registered trademark is 10 years, counted from the date of approval of the registry. For renewal, the period of validity of each renewal is 10 years, counted from the day immediately following the expiration of the preceding validity period.
When the registrant intends to continue to use the registered trademark beyond the expiration of the validity period, an application for renewal should be made within six months before the said expiration. If no application is filed within this period, a grace period of six months may be granted. If no application is filed at the expiration of the grace period, the registered trademark will be canceled.
To apply for renewal of a trademark registry, an application for renewal of trademark registry should be filed with the Trademark Office. Upon approval granted by the Trademark Office, a certificate to that effect will be issued to the registrant and the renewal will be announced.
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