作者：杨华 金杜律师事务所知识产权部

This article was written by Yang Hua King & Wood Mallesons‘ IP Group

2杨华016年4月7日中国商标局在其官方网站上发布一条引人注目的消息：国家工商总局新闻发言人明确表示5月底前将积压的商标注册证全部发放[1]。

On April 7th, 2016, the China Trademark Office(CTMO) announced on its official site that the spokesperson of the State Administration of Industry and Commerce (SAIC) said overdue trademark registrations certificates will be issued by the end of May.

商标注册证问题肇始于2015年8月，自去年8月份起，国内外商标申请人就未能收到中国商标局颁发的商标注册证，官方给出的解释是打印商标注册证的纸张告罄，需要通过正式的政府采购流程进行采购。但是随后采购环节和部门衔接的问题导致出现了这种不该发生的情况。

Neither overseas nor domestic registrants received trademark registration certificates since August 2015, which marked the start of the delay in the issuance. The official explanation was it took time to go through proper channels to purchase paper used to print the certificate. But uncoordinated cooperation between procurement and relevant departments worsened the situation.

由于迄今仍未收到商标注册证，招致商标申请人和代理机构的强烈质疑，同时延迟颁发的商标注册证也给商标权利人带来许多困难，例如有的权利人虽然商标已经注册，由于无法提供注册证导致一些商场、超市或网上商城为了规避风险下架其产品，一些权利人无法正常及时维权，给企业的品牌保护造成了严重的影响等等。2016年4月7日，有媒体刊登文章曝光此事，当天就引起工商总局高度重视，并在官网上发布消息，表示目前商标注册证用纸供应已经到位，3月28日已开始加班加点印制发放，并就此事向商标注册人表示歉意。

The delay of issuance incurred wide dissatisfaction from trademark registrants and agencies and brought upon difficulties to relevant parties. Certain brand owners’ products are taken off market because of failure to provide the registration certificate even though the trademark has been registered. Brand image gets negatively affected significantly in that registrants are unable to properly safeguard their legal rights for the same reason. When the issue was exposed by the media on April 7, 2016, the SAIC responded on the same day on the website announcing that printing paper has been procured and certificates were being printed around the clock, meanwhile issuing apologies to trademark registrants.

由于商标局还需要近两个月的时间处理积压问题，而且代理机构也需要一定的时间向商标注册人转送注册证，因此，近期如果权利人在实际经营过程中确实碰到了例如产品被迫下架这种问题，我们的建议是向相关方面出示上述官方的说明，同时出示从中国商标网上下载的商标注册信息，用于证明该商标确实已经注册。

The processing time for the CTMO is approximately 2 months. It takes time for agencies to deliver certificates as well. Thus if brand owners encounter the problem of products being taken off market, we recommend presenting the above official explanation while downloading registration information from http://sbj.saic.gov.cn to prove that the trademark has been registered.

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[1]http://sbj.saic.gov.cn/sbyw/201604/t20160408_167814.html