How to make sure the qualification and quality of a trademark service provider in China?

Contact Mr. Ma Jun's email majun@100ybf.com, Mr. Ma Jun is a professional trademark consultant, he is founder of 100IPservice, who files more than 6000 trademarks per year with high success rate.

1. How to prove your trademark partner is a professional one rather than someone doing a part time job?

Guess how many trademark service providers are registered in CTMO? The answer is more the 20,000. But I would say 95% of the service providers are doing the business as a side gig, most of the service providers file less than 100 per year.

So how to find professional force? Check the numbers of applications in CTMO public gazette, if such service provide has publications on consecutive 3-10 publications, it is likely to be a professional firm.

Like you can check from 1740-1746, with the name of 100IPservice （一百分知识产权）, you can find my firm got 954 initial approvals in the past 6 weeks.

This proves my firm is a professional firm and we do produce good results for clients.

2. What will be a reasonable range of price for a trademark in China?

Note the cost of one trademark service consists of channel fees and real service fees. So if you find directly a service provider in China, you save channel fees, if you find a local intermediary, you will pay for the channel fees – trust me, most of the time intermediaries are not more professional than you on trademark issues. And for service fees, the tradition is to provide service on a lump-sum basis, so do not agree to a billable hour deal.