I. What are the major categories of trademark registration?
The first category: chemical raw materials. Includes chemicals used in industry, science and agriculture, including chemicals used in the manufacture of products belonging to other classes; Class II:Pigments and paints. Includes pigments, beams and anticorrosive products; Category III:Household chemicals. Includes cleansing preparations and non-medicated preparations for toiletries; Category IV: Fuels and oils. Includes industrial oils and greases, fuels and lighting materials; Category V: Pharmaceuticals. Includes pharmaceuticals and other preparations for medical or veterinary use; Category VI:Metallic materials. Includes unprocessed and semi-processed metals, metal ores, and certain general metal products; Class VII:Machinery and equipment. Includes machines, machine tools, motors and engines; Class VIII:Hand Instruments. Includes hand instruments used as tools in various trades; Class IX:Scientific Instruments. Laboratory instruments and apparatus for scientific research; Electrical instruments and apparatus for navigational purposes, such as measuring and commanding instruments and apparatus; Includes software recorded on magnetic media or obtained from a remote computer network; Class X:Medical devices. Includes instruments, apparatus and supplies for surgical, medical, dental and veterinary use, primarily for the diagnosis, treatment and improvement of the functioning or state of health of man and animals; Class XI:Lamps Air Conditioning. Air conditioning units; electric or non-electric bed warmers, water warmers, long handled bed warmers; non-medical electric heating pads and electric blankets; electric kettles; electric cooking appliances; electric clothing; Category XII: Transportation vehicles. Includes motors and engines for land vehicles; couplings and transmission parts for land vehicles; hovercraft; Category XIII: arms and fireworks. Includes firearms and fireworks products; Class XIV: Jewelry and watches. Includes precious metals, certain articles of precious metals or plated precious metals, jewelry and clocks and watches and parts thereof; Class XV: Musical Instruments. Includes mechanical pianos and their accessories; music boxes; electric and electronic musical instruments; Class XVI: Office Supplies. Includes paper, cardboard and certain paper and cardboard products, office supplies; Class XVII:Rubber Products. Includes electrically insulating, heat-insulating or sound-insulating materials, as well as plastic sheets, boards or rods for production purposes, and certain products made from rubber, gutta-percha, gum, asbestos, mica and substitutes for these materials; Class XVIII:Leather and Leather Goods. Includes leather, artificial leather and certain articles made therefrom; Class XIX:Building materials. Including non-metallic building materials; Category XX:Furniture. Includes furniture and parts thereof, certain articles made of wood, cork, reed, rattan, wicker, horn, bone, ivory, whalebone, shell, amber, mother-of-pearl, seafoam, and substitutes for these materials, or plastics; Class XXI:Kitchen utensils. Includes small hand-operated utensils for household and kitchen use, lavatory utensils, glassware and certain articles made of porcelain, ceramics, terra cotta or glass; Class XXII:Ropes, nets and canopies. Includes ropes, cables and sail products, lining and filling materials, fiber materials for textile use" to "Class XXII mainly includes canvas and other materials for sail making, ropes and cables, lining and filling materials, fiber materials for textile use"; Class XXIII: Yarns and threads. Includes yarns and threads for textile use; Class XXIV:Fabric linens. Includes fabrics and fabric coverings for household use; Class XXV:Clothing, footwear and hats. Includes clothing, shoes and hats; Class 26: Buttons and zippers. Includes sewing articles, natural or artificial hair for wearing, hair ornaments, and small articles for decorating other articles, not included in other classes; Category 27:Carpets and mats. Includes products for laying on built-up floors and walls; Class XXVIII: Fitness equipment. Includes toys and playthings, sports equipment, recreational and creative props, and certain Christmas tree decorations; Class 29:Foodstuffs. Includes animal food products, as well as vegetables and other edible horticultural products for daily use or storage; Category 30: Convenience Foods. Includes foodstuffs of vegetable origin for daily use or storage, as well as flavorings; Category XXXI: Feed seeds. Includes products of the field and seafood, live animals and plants, as well as animal fodder, which have not been treated in any way for the purpose of consumption; Category XXXII: Beer and Beverages. Includes non-alcoholic beverages and beer; Category 33:Wine. Alcoholic beverages (other than beer); Class XXXIV:Tobacco smoking materials. Tobacco substitutes (non-medical); Category 35:Advertising sales. Including advertising; business operations; business management; office services; Category 36:Financial property management. Includes services provided by financial and monetary operations and services related to various insurance contracts; Class XXXVII:Building Repairs. Includes services provided by contractors or subcontractors for the construction of permanent buildings, and services provided by persons or organizations for the restoration of buildings or for keeping them in their original condition without altering their physical or chemical characteristics; Class XXXVIII:Communication services. Includes services enabling communication by sensory means between at least two persons; Class XXXIX:Transportation storage. Includes services provided for and necessary in connection with the transportation of persons or goods from one place to another (by railroad, road, water, air or pipeline) and services provided for the storage of goods in warehouses or other buildings for the purpose of facilitating the custody and preservation of the goods; Class XL:Material processing. Material handling; Category 41:Education and entertainment. Includes services provided by persons, individually or collectively, in the development of human or animal intelligence, and when used for recreation or amusement; Category 42:Website services. Includes theoretical and practical services provided by people, individually or collectively, involving complex areas of activity; These services are provided by professionals such as chemists, physicists, engineers, computer programmers, etc. Category XLIII:Food and Lodging. Includes services provided by persons or organizations for the provision of food and beverages to consumers and services provided for the purpose of obtaining beds and boarding in hotels, boarding houses, or other establishments providing temporary lodging; Class XLIV:Medical Horticulture. Includes medical, hygienic and cosmetic services provided by individuals or institutions to people or animals; it also includes services related to the field of agriculture, horticulture and forestry; Category XLV:Social services. Legal services; security services providing physical protection for tangible property and individuals; private and social provided by others to meet individual needs.Two, the process of trademark registration application
Natural persons or business units need to file a trademark application with the State Trademark Administration, and obtain a trademark registration certificate in order to enjoy the exclusive right to trademark. Application for registration of the trademark, the trademark office needs to be examined and approved, the specific procedures are as follows: 1. Trademark registration application Chinese people or Chinese enterprises to apply for trademark registration or other trademark matters, you can do it yourself, you can also entrust the legally established on behalf of the organization. 2. Trademark Office examination more applications for registration of trademarks, the Trademark Office shall, within nine months from the date of receipt of the application for registration of trademarks review. In the process of examination, the Trademark Office that the content of the application for trademark registration needs to be explained or amended, you can ask the applicant to make explanations or amendments. If the applicant fails to make the explanation or amendment, it does not affect the trademark office to make the examination decision. In line with relevant legal provisions, the Trademark Office to be preliminarily recognized announcement; does not meet the requirements, the Trademark Office rejected the application; 3. 3 months after the preliminary examination of the announcement of the objection period Trademark Office of the preliminary examination of the announcement of the trademark, from the date of the announcement of the three-month period, the prior rights of the person, the interested parties to have objected to the Trademark Office, you can file an objection. 4. Obtain the exclusive right to use the trademark The announcement of the period of no objection, to be approved for registration, issued by the trademark registration certificate, the applicant obtains the exclusive right to use the trademark; announcement of the period of objection, after examination of the objection is not established, the applicant obtains the exclusive right to use the trademark registration certificate issued by the applicant, after examination of the objections are established, is not registered, and the trademark application is rejected. In general, the trademark registration first need to retrieve the name of the trademark can be registered, can not be registered need to change the name, if you can, it depends on the name of the company or the name of the individual registration, corresponding to the submission of information, can be processed. Patent declaration is the first need to carry out technical patent search, if there is no similar or the same technology has been declared patents, then you can.