How to submit the trademark information registered in mainland 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 in mainland China, please click drop-down button and select “Mainland China”.


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 the copy of your trademark registration certificate is in black and white, please affix the seal of the registrant (for entity registrant) or sign (for individual registrant) on the black and white copy and provide a digital photo of the sealed or signed copy.
(You may refer to the illustration for samples of the trademark registration certificate issued by Trademark Office of the State Administration for Industry & Commerce of the PRC.)


If your trademark registration certificate has multi pages for trademark class (es), please upload them separately as indicated in the below screenshot. (You may refer to the illustration for a sample of the trademark registration certificate class page issued by Trademark Office of the State Administration for Industry & Commerce of the PRC.):


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


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 of the State Administration for Industry & Commerce of the PRC. (You may refer to the illustration for a sample of the trademark renewal certificate.)


1. 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 of the State Administration for Industry & Commerce of the PRC. (You may refer to the illustration for a sample of the trademark assignment certificate.)


2. 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 of the State Administration for Industry & Commerce of the PRC. If the copy of the certificate of change of trademark registration is in black and white, please affix the seal (for entity registrant) of the registrant or sign (for individual registrant) on the black and white copy and provide a digital photo of the sealed or signed copy. (You may refer to the illustration for a sample of the certificate of change of trademark registration.)


3. Please fill in the name if the trademark you submitted has been assigned or alerted.


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


You may follow up the status of IPR authentication 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 be 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 when all the related IPR information has been filled in. Please affix the official seal 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 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).