A Detailed Explanation of Agricultural Product Trademark Registration Fees and Points to Note

Agricultural product trademarks refer to the various registered trademarks related to agricultural and sideline products. With the deepening of the market economy, trademarks have increasingly become an effective channel and an inevitable outcome for agricultural products entering the market. Nowadays, many farmer friends have also gradually begun to attach importance to agricultural product trademarks, so how are agricultural product trademark registration fees charged? What points should be noted?

1. How are agricultural product trademark registration fees charged?

There are mainly two ways to register an agricultural product trademark: one is to apply for registration yourself at the Trademark Office of the State Administration for Industry and Commerce, and the other is to entrust an experienced trademark agency organization to provide agency services.

Agency companies generally charge between 800-2000, and can also provide trademark design services, follow-up rights protection services, and so on, saving time and effort, with a higher success rate, which is why it is also the choice of most people who need to register. If you apply for registration yourself at the Trademark Office of the State Administration for Industry and Commerce, the fee is 300 yuan per application, with no additional agency fee, but many subsequent matters need to be followed up by yourself.

At the trademark section office, you can ask the staff to help you screen it again and confirm whether it can be registered. If everything goes smoothly, you can submit the materials and then slowly wait. When there is a result, the staff will notify you to go. Generally, the notice comes down in about three months. If the review is passed, you can use the TM mark. It takes about a year for the formal trademark to come down, and then you can use the R mark.

2. Points to note

1. Registration is divided into registration by an enterprise entity and registration by an individual entity. If registering as an enterprise entity, the legal representative's ID card, official seal, and business license are required. After registration, trademark ownership belongs to the enterprise. If the enterprise is deregistered, the trademark is also automatically revoked. I have not experienced registration as an individual entity and am not very clear about what materials are required. You can ask the local market supervision administration.

2. Other required materials include the trademark name and graphic. The graphic for designing the trademark must be original. Directly appropriating one is very likely to result in unsuccessful registration and rejection.

3. When registering a trademark, you will be required to choose a classification. There are dozens of first-level categories in total. For example, the trademark I registered for selling agricultural products and fresh vegetables belongs to Class 31 and Class 29. Under each first-level category, there are also hundreds of subcategories. One registration can only choose one first-level category and 10 subcategories. If you add a first-level category, you need to register separately. If you add one subcategory, add 10% of the service fee. Which category your trademark specifically needs to be registered under can be determined for you by the staff at the trademark section according to the content of the goods, or you can check online yourself to confirm.

4. After a trademark is successfully registered, there will be a 10-year exclusive protection period. When it expires, you must apply for renewal. If you do not renew, it will automatically become invalid.

5. Trademark registration carries the risk of rejection. If the trademark is rejected, all fees are non-refundable.

The above is an introduction to agricultural product trademark registration fees and points to note. Before registering an agricultural product trademark, you can first go to the China Trademark Network and check one by one all the names you can think of to see whether they have already been registered or whether similar registrations already exist, so as to avoid causing unsuccessful registration later.

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