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Trademark Renewal in China

A Chinese registration lasts ten years. It can be renewed indefinitely, but only inside a twelve-month window — and CNIPA will not tell you it is closing. Marks are lost this way every year.
We verify your true expiry date on the CNIPA register
Renewal filed inside the window, no grace-period surcharge
Every mark we handle is tracked for the next ten years
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Official CNIPA fee

¥450

e-filing, per class
Rises to ¥675 if filed in the six-month grace period. Our attorney fee quoted separately.
Expiry verified on the register
Filed inside the window
Ten more years of protection
Next deadline tracked for you
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CNIPA Code 44804

Licensed filing agency

INTA & AIPPI

Verified memberships

5,000+ Clients

Across 40+ countries

Since December 2013

Shenzhen HQ + 5 offices

The renewal window

Twelve Months to Renew. Six Months of Grace. Then It Is Gone.

Article 40 of the Trademark Law sets the window. It is not discretionary and CNIPA does not extend it.

12-month renewal window

6-month grace

Cancelled

Renew normally

Official fee ¥450 e-filing. The correct time to act.

Late surcharge

Official fee ¥675. Still recoverable, but avoidable.

Rights end

Mark cancelled, and open for anyone else to register.

⚠ Why marks get lost

CNIPA Does Not Send Foreign Owners a Reminder

There is no notice to your overseas address, no email, no warning at the eleven-month mark. The obligation to track the date sits entirely with the registrant.
For a company holding one Chinese mark that is manageable. For a company holding fifteen across several classes, filed at different times by different agents, it is exactly the kind of administrative detail that quietly slips — until a competitor notices the lapse before you do.
This gets harder in 2027. Today a lapsed mark is shielded for twelve months by Article 50, which blocks others from registering it. The revised law removes that shield for non-renewal, leaving only voluntary surrender protected. From 1 January 2027, missing a renewal means the mark is available to anyone the day it lapses.

The real cost

A Lapsed Mark Does Not Simply Wait for You

This is the part most foreign owners underestimate.

Renewed in the window

Protection continues without interruption for ten more years, running from the day after the previous term ended. Nothing is lost.

Renewed in the grace period

Still recoverable. You pay the ¥225 late surcharge on top of the official fee. Protection continues, but you have spent money you did not need to.

Missed both

The registration is cancelled. Until the end of 2026 a one-year buffer under Article 50 blocks others from registering an identical mark. From 1 January 2027 that buffer disappears for non-renewal: a lapsed mark becomes available immediately.

If you hold more than one mark

Most Lapses Happen in Portfolios, Not Single Filings

A company with one Chinese trademark rarely loses it. Companies lose marks when they hold eight or twelve, filed across several years, in different classes, sometimes through different agents after a rebrand or acquisition — and no single person owns the calendar.
We take over portfolios regularly. The first step is always an audit: every registration pulled from the CNIPA register and verified, because internal spreadsheets are frequently wrong about expiry dates, and a date that is wrong by a few months is the whole problem.
From there the dates sit on one schedule that we monitor, and you hear from us before each window opens rather than after it closes.

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Portfolio renewal

Multiple marks, multiple dates, one schedule
Full audit — every registration checked against the CNIPA register
True dates, verified on the register, not taken from your file notes
Gap analysis — sub-classes you hold, and the ones you do not
Single schedule — all renewal dates in one place, tracked by us
Advance notice, we contact you well before each window opens

How it works

Four Steps, No Disruption to Your Protection

1

Send your details

Registration number, or just the brand name and rough filing year. We locate the mark on the CNIPA register ourselves.

Same day

2

We verify the true expiry

Confirmed against the register, not your records. We tell you whether you are inside the window, in grace, or past it.

24 hours

3

Renewal filed

Application lodged with CNIPA with the official fee paid. Filed electronically to avoid the higher paper rate.

2–3 days

4

Confirmed & tracked

CNIPA confirms renewal. Protection runs ten more years from the day after the old term ended, and we put the next date on your schedule.

+10 years

Pricing

Official Fees, Published Openly

China trademark renewal, official fee

¥450

e-filing, per class
¥450 e-filing within the 12-month window
¥675 e-filing within the 6-month grace period
¥500 paper filing within the window
¥750 paper filing within the grace period
Figures are CNIPA official fees. Our attorney fee is quoted separately and confirmed before any work begins.

Not sure which window you're in?

Send us the registration number — we’ll check the real date, free.
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Credentials You Can Verify

Judge any China IP firm on its agency registration and its memberships, not on a marketing claim.

5,000+

Clients across 40+ countries

7 registries

Certificates on file

Since 2013

Shenzhen HQ + 5 offices

44804

CNIPA Agency Code

Licensed to File at CNIPA

Foreign applicants cannot file directly with China’s IP administration: it must go through a licensed agency. Verify on CNIPA’s agent register.

AIPPI

Chinese Group · Cert. 2024002

AIPPI Chinese Group

2024 collective member, issued to Guangdong Precise Intellectual Property Agency Co Ltd.

INTA

Member

INTA Member

Listed as Precise Intellectual Property LLC in the INTA member directory.

China Trademark Renewal FAQs

Within the twelve months immediately before the registration expires, under Article 40 of the Trademark Law. You cannot renew earlier than that. If the window is missed there is a further six-month grace period, but it carries a late surcharge.
The registration is cancelled and your rights in the mark end. Under current law, Article 50 gives a small mercy: for one year afterwards CNIPA will not approve an identical or similar mark from anyone else. That buffer is being removed. Under the revised Trademark Law effective 1 January 2027, the one-year block applies only where a registrant voluntarily surrenders a mark — non-renewal no longer qualifies. From that date a lapsed registration is open for a competitor or squatter to file immediately.
No. CNIPA issues no renewal reminders to foreign registrants. There is no email, no letter to your overseas address. If nobody on your side is tracking the date, the first indication that something is wrong is usually discovering the mark has lapsed, by which point the grace period may also have run.
The CNIPA official fee is RMB 450 for electronic filing. Filing during the six-month grace period adds a late surcharge of RMB 225, bringing the official cost to RMB 675. Paper filing is higher at RMB 500, or RMB 750 in the grace period. Our attorney fee is quoted separately and confirmed before any work begins.
Ten years, running from the day after the previous term ended, not from the date you filed the renewal. So renewing early within the window does not shorten your protection. Renewal can be repeated indefinitely.
Yes. We regularly take over portfolios originally filed by other agents. We audit the registrations, verify every expiry date against the CNIPA register rather than trusting the previous record, and track them from there. Send us your list and we will tell you which dates are approaching.

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Find Out When Your Marks Actually Expire

Send us your registration numbers — or just the brand name and roughly when you filed. We check every one against the CNIPA register and come back with the real dates, including anything already inside the window.
Expiry dates verified on the CNIPA register
We flag anything already in the grace period
Portfolio audits welcome — any number of marks
Licensed CNIPA agency, Code 44804

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Confidential. No obligation.
Sending this does not create a solicitor–client relationship.

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