1.Trademarks may only object to the Trademark Office's preliminary examination of the trademark published on the Trademark Notice within the period of objection. The term of objection is 3 months from the date of the preliminary examination and approval of the objection trademark to the day before the registration announcement.
2.Opponents of the objection should have a clear request and factual basis and the corresponding evidence to support. The evidence can not be submitted at the time of the application for the objection. It should be declared in the objection application and the evidence shall be submitted within 3 months from the date of the application for the objection.
3.The last day of the objection period is a statutory holiday and can be extended to the first working day after the holiday.
4.If a bill is to be paid through bank transfer, a copy of the remittance note retained by the opponent shall be sent to the Trademark Office together with the objection application. After receiving the objection application, the Trademark Office will send the "Notice of Payment" to the opponent if no copy of the remittance slip is received. The opponent shall pay the fee in accordance with the requirements of the "Notice of Payment", and send a copy of the remittance slip and the "Notice of Payment" to the Trademark Office.
5.After the Trademark Office receives the application for trademark objection, after the formal examination, the notification of acceptance is issued according to the acceptance conditions. If the opponent is submitted their objection to the application, the Trademark Office objection sent directly to "acceptance notice"; if it is to entrust a trademark agency for the trademark objection to the application, the Trademark Office will send a "Notice of acceptance" of the trademark agency.
6.The duration of the trademark opposition is 30 days from the date of receipt of the notice of reply. The same is true of the claim and the time limit for the submission of the objection.
7.The date on which the opponent submits the objection application to the Trademark Office.
8.As a result of the technical reasons for the typesetting of the "Trademark Announcement" of paper, it is also possible to publish a notice of objection in the trademark notice in the last month of the objection period. Therefore, the Implementing Regulations of the Trademark Law stipulate that: "The objection trademark has been published before the entry into force of the objection notice, revoke the original registration of the notice, the objection ruling registered trademark re-announcement." Published on the 28th of the "trademark notice" published trademark opposition and objection ruling.
9.As the address of the opponent or the opponent changes, the Trademark Office issued a notice of trademark opposition, the post office can not be delivered to be returned, the Trademark Office will be published on the 21st of the "Trademark Notice" published on the announcement. The document will be deemed to have been delivered since the date of publication of the notice.