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Applying for registration

Search and Preliminary Advice Services

You may use our Search and Preliminary Advice services before applying for a trademark on T1. It can tell you whether we will likely accept your trademark for registration. Using this service can save you the money of applying an unregistrable trademark

Search service (HK$200): we will tell you if there are any identical or similar marks on the Trade Marks Register. Alternatively, you can search the Trade Marks Register yourself before making your application at our online Trade Mark Search system (http://ipsearch.ipd.gov.hk/trademark/jsp/index.html).

Preliminary advice service (HK$200): we will tell you if your mark is sufficiently distinctive or if we may raise any other types of objections against your mark.

Application Fees

HK$1300 to apply to register a trade mark in one class of goods or services; and

HK$650 for each additional class of goods or services.

Payment can be made by cash or cheque payable to 'The Government of the Hong Kong SAR"

How to fill in your trade mark application form?

Forms: T2

Optional form: T2A (used only if you are applying for a certification, collective, defensive mark, sound or smell mark, or if you claim a 3-dimensional shape or colour(s) as a trademark or an element of your trademark, or if you wish to include a disclaimer, limitation or condition.)

Please read "Explanatory Notes on Trade Marks Forms T2 and T2A" of "How to apply to register a trade mark in the Hong Kong SAR?" before you fill in the forms

Please also refer to How to classify my goods/services?

Please submit your application with fees to "Intellectual Property Department, 24/F, Wu Chung House, 213 Queen's Road East, Wanchai, Hong Kong, China" by post or in person.

Opening hours: 9:00 a.m. - 5:45 p.m. (Mon - Fri)