How to submit the trademark information registered outside of China?

Step 1: Please go to IPR Submission page.

Please visit Alibaba IPP Platform at the address https://ipp.alibabagroup.com/ and sign in your IPP account and move to User Center;


Please click “IPR Submission” button and go to IPR Submission page;


Step 2: Please choose the IPR type.

Please choose “Trademark”.


Step 3: Please choose the place of IPR registration

If your trademark is registered outside of China, please click drop-down button and select “Others”.


Please click “Save Draft” to save the information you submitted and then click “Next” button to move on.


Step 4: Please provide the basic information of your trademark.

1. Please upload a scanned color copy or digital photo of your original trademark registration certificate.
If your trademark is registered in multi-classes and the registration certificate has multi pages for goods/services in different classes, please upload them separately as indicated in the below screenshot.


2. Please fill in the details of your trademark according to the information indicated in your original trademark registration certificate you have uploaded.


Note:
You may choose several class of goods/services of trademarks on basis of your trademark protection class indicated on your trademark registration certificate.


3. Please choose the brand on basis of the registered trademark you have submitted.
(You may choose “其他/other” if your brand is not listed yet.)


Step 5. Please provide additional information of the trademark you submitted.

1. Please choose whether the trademark you submitted has ever been renewed.
If the trademark you submitted is valid without renewing the trademark protection period, please choose “No”.
If the trademark you submitted has been renewed successfully, please choose “Yes” and upload the renewal certificate issued by Trademark Office.


2. Please choose whether the trademark you submitted has ever been assigned.
If there is no assignment for the trademark you submitted, please choose “No”.
If the trademark you submitted has been assigned successfully, please choose “Yes” and upload the assignment certificate issued by Trademark Office.


3. Please choose whether there is any change to your trademark registration.
If there is no change to your trademark registration, please choose “No”.
If the registrant's name, address or other registered contents have previously been changed since the trademark registration, please choose “Yes” and upload a scanned color copy or digital photo of the original certificate of change of trademark registration issued by Trademark Office.


4. Please fill in the current trademark holder indicated on the assignment certificate or certificate of change of trademark registration if the trademark you submitted has been assigned or there is any change to the registrant name.


Step 5: Please click “Submit for verification” button to submit the verification request of your trademark information. You may click “Add IPR” to submit more IPR information or review IPR Management once you submit the verification request successfully.


You may follow up the status of IPR verification request through IPR Management.


Note:
If the trademark owner’s name is inconsistent with the complainant’s name, the identification document of the trademark owner and the Power of Attorney are required. Please upload the identification document of the trademark owner, enter the identification number and select the expiration date of the POA.


Please download and print out the POA template once all the related IPR information has been filled in. Please affix the official seal/chop on (for entity rights holder) or sign (for individual rights holder) the POA, and then please upload a digital photo or a scanned color copy of the sealed/chopped of signed POA. You may also use the POA prepared and issued by the rights holder, and please ensure that the right to enforce the IPR is explicated authorized by the rights holder in the POA.






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