1. Trademark objects: characters, letters, numbers, graphics, designs, three-dimensional objects, colors, sounds, smells and their combinations.
2. Authorization conditions: It can be used to distinguish the sources of goods and services.
3. Trademark type:
(1) common trademark;
(2) Collective trademark-multiple enterprises that produce the same commodity type or provide the same service type can use the same trademark that the association has applied for registration.
4. Reasons for absolutely refusing to register:
(1) lack of significance;
(2) Descriptive trademarks, except those that have acquired a second meaning through use in Germany;
(3) misleading the public;
(4) including national symbols;
(5) Violation of public policy or moral principles.
Two. Materials required for German trademark registration:
1. Name and address of the enterprise (in Chinese and English);
2, the international classification of goods/services and the list of designated goods/services and other information;
3. A copy of the business license;
4. Trademark pattern;
Third, the German trademark registration fee and cycle:
Four. German trademark registration process:
1. Application documents: application (available for accelerated review) and trademark expression (pictures, photos, CDs, etc. ).
Application method: Electronic application can be submitted in paper form or through official website of German Patent and Trademark Office. The electronic application fee is slightly lower and the examination is faster.
Individuals or enterprises that have no domicile or business office in Germany must entrust German lawyers or EU lawyers as agents.
If Germany is designated as a protected country in the EU trademark application and the World Intellectual Property Organization international trademark application, German trademark protection can also be obtained.
After submitting the registration application, you will get a receipt and an application number, which will be published in the registration database of the German Patent and Trademark Office.
3. The German Patent and Trademark Office examines whether the application for trademark registration has absolute reasons for rejecting the registration, and does not examine whether the same or similar trademark has been registered.
The owner of a registered trademark will get a trademark registration certificate.
The registered trademark will be published in trademark magazine.
6. The prior obligee may object to the registration of the trademark in written form within 3 months after the announcement of trademark registration.
7. Within 10 years after the registration of a trademark, anyone can apply to the German Patent and Trademark Office, or request the court to cancel the registration of the trademark on the grounds of absolutely rejecting the registration.
8. The German Patent and Trademark Office will notify the trademark registrant after receiving the application for trademark cancellation. If the trademark registrant does not raise an objection within 2 months, the trademark will be revoked.
9. The German Patent and Trademark Office will notify the trademark registrant after receiving the application for trademark revocation. If the trademark registrant raises an objection within 2 months, the German Patent and Trademark Office will start the revocation procedure.
10. Trademarks must be used for all registered categories of goods and services. If a trademark is not used for five consecutive years after registration, anyone can apply to the German Patent and Trademark Office or request the court to cancel the registration of the trademark.
1 1. After receiving the application for trademark revocation, the German Patent and Trademark Office will notify the trademark registrant that if the trademark registrant does not raise an objection within 2 months, the trademark will be revoked.
12. After receiving the application for trademark cancellation, the German Patent and Trademark Office will notify the trademark registration obligee. If the right holder of trademark registration raises an objection within 2 months, the applicant for revocation may bring a trademark revocation lawsuit to the court.