In 2016, the Trademark Office had a paper shortage incident, when the Xinhua News Agency criticized the Trademark Office for lacking paper: what is lacking is not paper, but service responsibility. The Trademark Office learned a lesson from the pain, after 5 years of fighting, finally determined to solve the problem that plagued the Trademark Office, trademark applicants, trademark agents for a long time at the end of 2021, after the Trademark Office will never lack of paper!On October 12, 2021, the State Intellectual Property Office issued Notice No. 453 as follows:
State Intellectual Property Office Announcement (No. 453)
In order to implement the deepening of the "administration and service" reform, promote the reform of trademark registration, optimize the business environment, improve the level of public services, is now the trademark registration certificate issued by way of adjustment, the announcement is as follows.
A. Since January 1, 2022, the announcement of registration and other trademark applications generated by the trademark registration certificate, the form of paper submitted trademark applications sent to the "notice of receipt of trademark registration certificate", the registrant according to the notice designated URL and extraction code, login to the Chinese trademark network to obtain electronic trademark registration certificate.
To electronically submit a trademark application to log in the trademark online service system to obtain the electronic trademark registration certificate. Electronic trademark registration certificate can be viewed and downloaded and printed.
State Intellectual Property Office no longer issue paper trademark registration certificate.
Second, the establishment of a transitional period, October 15, 2021 to December 31, 2021, the announcement of registration and other trademark applications generated by the trademark registration certificate, the form of paper submitted trademark applications sent to the "notice of receipt of trademark registration certificate", the registrant according to the notice designated URL and extraction code, login to the Chinese trademark network to obtain electronic trademark registration certificate, while sending paper trademark registration certificate.
The issuance of trademark applications submitted in electronic form remains unchanged for the time being.
Notice is hereby given.
State Intellectual Property Office
How to receive the electronic trademark registration certificate
1. Login to the State Intellectual Property Office Registration Certificate Public Notice System (http://wsgs.sbj.cnipa.gov.cn:9080/tmpu/)
2. Click "Receive electronic trademark registration certificate"
3. Enter the registration number and extraction code in the "Notice of Receipt of Trademark Registration" sent by the State Intellectual Property Office, and you can download the electronic trademark registration certificate.
How to check the electronic trademark registration certificate
1. Login to the State Intellectual Property Office Registration Certificate Public Notice System (http://wsgs.sbj.cnipa.gov.cn:9080/tmpu/)
2. Take the trademark "SNAPTUBE" that Chiram has represented as an example.
Select "trademark registration certificate" in the type of supporting documents in the search criteria, and enter "SNAPTUBE" as the trademark name, then you can see all the trademark registration certificates containing "Chiram".
3. Click to view the document to see the specific information of the trademark, including whether the trademark registration certificate is currently valid, the trademark number, the name of the registrant, the address, the item of goods, etc.