1. Applicant qualification: domestic and foreign legal persons, natural persons or groups can apply for registered trademarks.
2. Application process (smooth situation): 1) Formal review: after submitting the application, give the application number and confirm the application time.
At this stage, whether the application documents meet the requirements is reviewed.
2) substantive examination: according to the law, examine whether the trademark can be registered, for example, whether it is significant.
If the examiner thinks that the trademark is not suitable for registration, he will issue a notice of rejection.
The applicant can give a reply within the specified time.
The applicant may also apply for an extension of the reply time.
3) Announcement: After the trademark has passed the examination, notify the applicant that the trademark application has been accepted and publish it in the trademark announcement.
Anyone can raise objections, state reasons and submit relevant evidence within the two-month announcement period.
4) Registration approval: a trademark that can be registered after an objection ruling, or a trademark that has been announced without objection, shall be registered and issued with a registration certificate.
The whole application process is smooth (if there are no rejections, objections, etc.). It takes about 6-9 months.
3. Validity: 65,438+00 years from the date of registration. If it is necessary to continue to use it after the expiration of the registration period, an application for renewal of registration shall be filed six months before the expiration of the registration period, and the validity period of each renewal of registration is 10 year; A grace period of 6 months, but an extra fee will be paid.
4. Japan accepts applications for registration of commodity trademarks, service trademarks, series trademarks, certification trademarks, collective trademarks, defensive trade mark, color combination trademarks, three-dimensional trademarks, smell trademarks and sound trademarks;
5. Japan follows the Nice Agreement on the International Classification of Goods and Services for Trademark Registration, with 34 commodity classification categories and 1 1 service categories.