What are the conditions and time for Madrid trademark registration?

What are the conditions and time for Madrid trademark registration? Before applying for international registration, the applicant may search for prior rights to ensure that its trademark does not conflict with the prior application or registered trademark of the designated contracting party. Many countries/regions provide specialized databases. In view of professional knowledge and language barriers, such inquiries usually require the assistance of entrusted agencies. In order to help international registration applicants as much as possible, the International Bureau of the World Intellectual Property Organization (hereinafter referred to as the International Bureau) provides a "GlobalBrandDatahase" on its official website. Through Boolean retrieval, proximity retrieval, stem retrieval, pronunciation retrieval and "fuzzy" retrieval, the applicant can quickly find the same or similar words, and it also has the function of graphic retrieval. However, the query scope of the database is mainly aimed at the internationally registered trademarks in Madrid, excluding the trademarks directly applicable to some contracting parties (that is, outside the Madrid system). Applicants can log on to the official website of the competent authorities of each contracting party through the "MemberProcedures" entrance of the International Bureau to search for the trademark register. Take the United States as an example. You can log in to the official website of the United States Patent and Trademark Office through the entrance of the "Member State Program" and find the "Searchtrademarkdatabase" on official website for the required query.

To register a trademark through the Madrid system, the applicant should meet at least one of the following three conditions: having a real and effective business office, domicile or nationality in China.

Applicants need to fill out two kinds of applications in Chinese and foreign languages. Applicants can download it through the "Download Book" item in the "International Registration" column of China Trademark Network. The official name of China's application is "Madrid trademark international registration application", and the official name of foreign application is MM2. Chinese application is relatively simple, and applicants only need to fill it out item by item according to the basic registration situation in China. The main information to be filled in a foreign application is basically the same as that in China. Commodity translation is the most important link in foreign language application, and it is also the most difficult to fill in. Applicants can improve the accuracy of translation through three translation tools:

1. dictionary or translation software

Applicants can use Baidu translation or Kingsoft to make a preliminary translation, and can roughly determine the scope of vocabulary.

2. International Bureau "Manager of Goods and Services in Madrid"

3. Commodities translated through dictionaries and translation software may not meet the relevant requirements. Applicants can make inquiries through the translation software provided by official website of the International Bureau, and try their best to find the standard commodities acceptable to the International Bureau.

4. US Patent and Trademark Office "Guide to Acceptable Goods and Services"

Because the United States has very strict requirements for goods, even the goods accepted by the International Bureau and most contracting parties may still be rejected by the United States on the grounds that "the goods are too broad and need to be refined". In order to reduce the probability of rejection, the applicant can use the Label Manual of Acceptable Goods and Services in the United States provided by the United States government to modify the goods to meet the requirements of the competent authorities in the United States.

China Trademark Network provides some guidance on filling out the application form. If the applicant is proficient in English and the goods to be translated are not complicated, he can complete two applications in Chinese and English within 60 minutes.

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