More of CNIPA's answers on assignment and licensing

The business scope is no limit, and the assignment can be filed.

Yes.

The other co-owner's consent is required. Without it the assignment cannot be filed.

Yes. File an assignment application with the Trademark Office.

There is no template. Simply state the facts.

If no refusal review is sought for the refused mark, it need not be assigned.

1. When a registered mark is assigned, the owner must assign together its identical or similar marks registered on identical or similar goods. 2. No.

The owner's identical or similar marks registered on identical or similar goods must be assigned together.

It can be assigned repeatedly, without limit. Under Article 23 of the Trademark Law, to obtain the exclusive right on goods outside the approved scope, a separate registration application must be filed.

You can file directly for A to assign to C. If A assigns to B and B then to C, two fees must be paid.

Yes.

It must be an assignment, and the assignment fee cannot be waived.

You can file the assignment directly, and apply for replacement certificates after it is approved.

They can be filed at the same time.

They can be filed together, and the new application waits for the assignment to finish before examination. You may also file a request to defer examination, stating that it is waiting for the earlier assignment.

Before approval, the exclusive right belongs to the assignor, and use by the assignee is not protected by the Trademark Law.

The assignment is also announced. The assignee holds the exclusive right from the date of the announcement.

An assignment can be filed. If it is approved before the registration announcement, the certificate shows the assignee. If it is approved after the registration announcement, the certificate shows the original applicant.

Yes.

A pledged mark can be recorded as licensed with the pledgee's consent.

A frozen mark cannot be assigned.

Assignment examination does not consider whether a company is on the abnormal list. As long as its business license is still valid, the assignment can be filed.

A change application must be filed, and it can be filed together with the assignment.

It can be assigned directly.

The Trademark Office has no requirement on this.

An assignment application can be filed.

They do not affect each other.

Enter the correct identity number and file a correction application at the same time.

Yes. You can issue one consent to assignment and write on it the registration numbers of all the marks to be assigned.

It is not needed, and no correction notice will be issued for it.

A party applying for a change, assignment or renewal may ask us to speed up examination, with evidence of the reason, in these special circumstances: (1) a company applying to list on a stock exchange; (2) financing against a pledge of the trademark; (3) customs recordal of the trademark right; (4) trial of a trademark rights case in administrative proceedings; (5) the needs of litigation; (6) products entering shopping malls, supermarkets or e-commerce platforms; (7) other reasonable grounds.

If the assignment is still in progress, write to the Trademark Office's General Division and at the same time ask a court for property preservation. If it has been completed, consider resolving it through the courts.

Yes.

It lapses automatically on expiry.

A mark that has not been registered cannot be recorded as licensed.