Wednesday, August 20, 2014

Why I have No Notice of Acceptance from Trademark Office in China?

The new Trademark Law is enforced from May 1st, 2014 and still in the transitory stage. It takes time to adjust the system and complete the specific rules. The reasons why there is no notice of acceptance from Mark Office are as followed:

1. The Upgrade of Trademark Office System
From April to June, there is an upgrade of Trademark office system. And during that period, the office will only accept the documents but not actually process them, which cause different influences to each procedure of Trademark application.

2. The Changes of Trademark Processing Procedure
The biggest change Trademark processing procedure is from the procedure of material inspection. The Trademark office applies a new way of material inspection and has much stricter requirement to it. What’s more, the notice of acceptance can only be issued after the pass of second material inspection, which means the Trademark office will firstly issue the additions and corrections notice if there is mistakes of the submitted materials, then the notice of acceptance after all are corrected.

Old application procedure of Trademark registration
Receive Materials---Inspect Material---Input Material---Proceed Fee---Issue Notice of Acceptance
New Application Procedure of Trademark Registration
Receive Materials---Inspect Material---Proceed Fee---Second Time of Inspecting Material---Issue Notice of Acceptance

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