We protect what you share.
Whether or not you ultimately engage us, we keep confidential the trademark names, artwork, proposed goods or services and related business plans you provide during enquiries, searches, quotations and applications.
MY CNTM · Our commitment
Your trademark plans.
Kept in confidence.
Share your ideas knowing where we stand. We protect your trademark intentions from your first enquiry, whether or not you choose to work with us.
Three clear promises.
Your information is entrusted to us for your enquiry and instructions.
We do not reveal your plans.
Without your express authorization, we will not disclose this information to your agents, distributors, business partners, competitors or other unrelated third parties, or reveal your trademark intentions to solicit business.
We do not use your ideas against you.
We will not use this information to apply for, hold or appropriate your trademark in our own name or for our employees, affiliates or other clients. We will not arrange for or assist anyone else to do so.
Necessary disclosure, clearly defined.
Necessary disclosure is permitted to CNIPA or another competent authority to carry out your authorized instructions, to our personnel, translators and professional advisers under confidentiality obligations on a need-to-know basis, or where disclosure is required by law, regulation or court order. We use the information only as necessary to handle your enquiry or instructions and meet legal obligations.
A lasting commitment.
This commitment continues if you do not engage us, end an enquiry or terminate our engagement. Information lawfully made public is no longer confidential to that extent; application information may be published under the competent authority’s rules. We do not guarantee that no third party will independently apply for a similar mark.
Tell us your plans with confidence.
This commitment forms part of our Terms of Service, section 13.