1、申請人資格： 德國法律規(guī)定，仟何希望在商業(yè)活動中使其商品或服務區(qū)別于他人的商品或服務的人均可以向德國專利局提出申請注冊商標。聯(lián)邦法律還規(guī)定，在德國沒有營業(yè)所的申請人只有在其設(shè)有營業(yè)所的國家接受德國的商標或服務商標并且予以和其本國的商標相同的待遇時才依法在德國申請商標保護。

2、申請流程：

(1)形式審查： 申請遞交后 對提交的申請文件、商標圖樣、委托書等文件進行的合法性審查;符合規(guī)定的，將授予申請日和申請?zhí)枴?/p>

( 2)實質(zhì)審查： 根據(jù)法律審查商標是否具有可注冊性、 是否與在先注冊的商標相同或近似、是否違背商標法的禁用條款。 對于不通過實質(zhì)審查的商標，審查官將書面通知申請人，并告知駁回理由。申請人在接到該駁回通知之日起限期內(nèi)可提交復審，否則，該申請將被視為放棄，申請日和申請?zhí)柧挥璞Ａ簟?/p>

( 3)商標公告： 經(jīng)審查，審查官認為商標申請可以被接受后，便會在德國官方商標公告上刊登公告。自公告日 3 個月為異議期。

( 4)注冊核準： 經(jīng)異議被裁定可以注冊的商標，或經(jīng)公告沒有異議的商標將獲準注冊并下發(fā)注冊證。整個順利的申請過程(如果沒有駁回、異議等情況出現(xiàn))大概需要 6-8個月。3、德國商標有效期： 從申請日起算 10 年 ，注冊有效期滿需繼續(xù)使用的，應在注冊有效期滿前 6個月申請續(xù)展注冊，每次續(xù)展注冊有效期為10年。

1. Applicant qualification : German law provides that everyone who wants to make their goods or services different from others in commercial activities can apply for registered trademarks to the German Patent Office. Federal law also stipulates that applicants who have no place of business in Germany apply for trademark protection in Germany only when they accept the German trademark or service trademark in the country where they have a place of business and give the same treatment as their own trademark.

2. Application process :

( 1 ) Form review : the legality review of the application documents, trademark drawings, commissions and other documents submitted after the application is submitted ; if the requirements are met, the application date and application number will be granted.

( 2 ) Substantive examination : examination under the law of whether a trade mark is registrable, whether it is the same or similar as a previously registered trade mark and whether it is contrary to the terms of prohibition of the trademark law. For the trademark that does not pass the substantive examination, the examiner will notify the applicant in writing and inform the reason for the rejection. The applicant can submit a review within the time limit from the date of receiving the notice of rejection. Otherwise, the application will be considered to be abandoned, and neither the application date nor the application number will be retained.

( 3 ) Trademark announcement : After examination, the examiner thinks that the trademark application can be accepted, it will be published in the German official trademark announcement. Three months from the announcement date is the objection period.

( 4 ) Registration and approval : the trademark which is ruled to be registered by objection, or the trademark which is not objection by announcement will be approved to be registered and issued a registration certificate. The whole application process ( if there is no rejection, objection, etc. ) will take about 6-8 months. 3. Validity period of German trademark : from the date of application for10years, registration validity period expires need to continue to use, should be in the registration validity period of6months before the application for renewal registration, each renewal registration validity period is10years.