1. Ask about the trademark first. If there is no identical or similar trademark in advance, you can make application documents and submit the application;
2. About 1 month after the application is submitted, the Trademark Office will send you an application acceptance notice (this period is called the formal review stage).
3. After the formal review is completed, it will take about 1 year to 1 year and a half to enter the substantive review stage.
4. Those who pass the substantive examination shall enter the announcement procedure (this period is 3 months, also called the objection period);
5. When the announcement expires, no one raises any objection. You can get the registration certificate.
Patent application process:
1. Confirm the type of patent application.
2. Search for the same type of patent, you can search independently, or you can entrust an agency to conduct a more comprehensive search.
3. Prepare the application documents and submit them to the application step.
4. get the admission notice.
5. Preliminary review. (In the case of an application for a patent for invention, the application for a patent for invention must be examined in a confidential manner before preliminary examination. If confidentiality is required, it shall be handled in accordance with the confidentiality procedures.
6. Publishing stage (especially invention patent application).
7. Substantive examination (especially invention patents). To conduct a comprehensive review of whether the patent application is novel, creative, practical and other substantive conditions stipulated in the patent law.
8. Authorization stage. The utility model and design can directly enter the authorization stage after passing the examination in the fifth step.