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China Trademark Application procedures
----Submit to the Trademark Office of China the application material, in three month, the Office gives us an Acception Acknowledgement (after doing some formal examination). Then the Office will do preliminary examination, after the preliminary examination, if there is no problem, the Office will publish a preliminary examination proclamatory on the Trademark Gazette. Time from acception to publishing cannot be specified. After publishing the preliminary examination gazette, there is 3 months for the public to check and raise opposition. If in the 3 months, no oppostion raised, the Trademark Office will publish a registration proclamatory on the Trademark Gazette. One and a half months after that you will get the Trademark Registration Certificate.

----The following is the summary: Submit material -> Formal Examination -> Acception Acknowledgement ->Preliminary Examination -> Gazette Publishing -> Time for Public Examination->Registration Proclamatory -> Certificate

----Time above-mentioned amounts to 2 year approximately, if the preliminary examination does not pass and re-examination needed or the public files opposition, the time will be longer.

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