Trademark can be words (including personal names), indications, designs, letters, characters, numerals, figurative elements, colors, sounds, smells, the shape of goods or their packaging, and any combination of the above signs posed. Can be expressed graphically by the tag, it can be registered as trademarks.
Upon registration of your trademark, you may have in respect of goods and services right to the exclusive use of the mark. If other traders in Hong Kong without your consent to the mark for identical or similar goods or services, shall be guilty of infringement, you may take legal action. If trademarks are not registered, it is harder to prove that you are the mark of the "owner", you get the protection is limited.
Service Fee:HK$3,600
Register a trademark and one category
Government fees:
Register a trademark and one category:HK$2,000
Government Search fees HK$400
Total: HK$6,000
(Additional category Government fees: HK$1,000 each)
(Additional category Government search fees: HK$200 each)
- Intellectual Property Department's website free of charge in a preliminary search (word mark only)
- Prepare documentation and authorization
- Documents to be submitted to the Intellectual Property Department
- Personal follow up the progress
- Handle the event of objection to the application
- Receive a certificate of registration
The whole process takes about six months
The company needs 1. Company registration certificate (copy) 2. Business Registration (copy) 3. To be registered the trademark logo / text 4. To be registered the trademark category (More details...) |
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