Reasons & Settlement for rejection of trademark:
Reasons of trademark rejection:
1. Violation of compulsory provisions
the trademark itself is rejected due to no significance, exaggerated publicity, adverse effects and others.
the trademark itself is rejected due to no significance, exaggerated publicity, adverse effects and others.
2. Blind inspection period
This is inevitable. The Trademark Law will reject the trademark applied later according to the principle of first application.
3. Unfavorable trademark inquiry
Due to the different professional level and inexperience of the applicant or trademark agency, the relative credibility of the query results is not higher.
Due to the different professional level and inexperience of the applicant or trademark agency, the relative credibility of the query results is not higher.
Settlement of trademark rejection
1. No re-examination, automatic division of trademark
if the trademark applicant does not make a re-examination, the Trademark Office will automatically divide the part of the trademark preliminarily approved and the part that is not approved for registration. Some of the commodities that have been preliminarily approved for trademark registration will be directly announced in the preliminary examination. After the three-month announcement period has expired and there is no objection, the trademark registration certificate will be issued for registration.
if the trademark applicant does not make a re-examination, the Trademark Office will automatically divide the part of the trademark preliminarily approved and the part that is not approved for registration. Some of the commodities that have been preliminarily approved for trademark registration will be directly announced in the preliminary examination. After the three-month announcement period has expired and there is no objection, the trademark registration certificate will be issued for registration.
2. Review and apply for manual Division of trademark
The part of the trademark preliminarily approved will be divided into another new trademark, and a new application number will be generated, but the application date of the original application will be retained. The new trademark will continue to go through the following trademark registration process.For the rejected parts, the appropriate way shall be selected to review the rejected category
The part of the trademark preliminarily approved will be divided into another new trademark, and a new application number will be generated, but the application date of the original application will be retained. The new trademark will continue to go through the following trademark registration process.For the rejected parts, the appropriate way shall be selected to review the rejected category
3. Review without applying for division of trademarkI
If the applicant wants to make a refutation and reply examination and does not intend to apply for division of trademark, the part of the preliminary examination and approval of the category will not enter the announcement period of the preliminary examination and approval, and it shall be wait for the re examination results of the whole trademark to enter the subsequent trademark registration process.
If the applicant wants to make a refutation and reply examination and does not intend to apply for division of trademark, the part of the preliminary examination and approval of the category will not enter the announcement period of the preliminary examination and approval, and it shall be wait for the re examination results of the whole trademark to enter the subsequent trademark registration process.
If a trademark is rejected, it does mean the trademark that can not be registered successfully. Many trademarks are obtained after trademark reexamination. There are some difficulties in trademark rejection review, but the probability of success is also not low.
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