Hong Kong trademark search

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How to search and register a trademark in Hong Kong, from official sources. Signa has no records covering Hong Kong yet.

Search the IPD register

Public Online Search (POS) - Trade Mark Search is Intellectual Property Department, Trade Marks Registry's own search tool.

Tool: Public Online Search (POS) - Trade Mark Search
Search by: trade mark text (wildcard or letter mark), device code, Nice class, applicant or owner, address for service, trade mark number, mark type, specification of goods and services, filing and registration dates, agent's details
Languages: English, Traditional Chinese, Simplified Chinese
Account required: No
Limits: A captcha must be solved and a notice on the use of personal data accepted before searching; search by image is a separate tool, the Image Mark Finder.

Open the Trade Mark Search in the Online Search System, solve the captcha and accept the notice to users.
On Quick Search, choose to search for Trade Mark, pick the search method (Wildcard or Letter Mark) and enter criteria such as trade mark text, class number or applicant/owner.
Use ? for one character and * for several; a comma between words is read as OR.
Click Search or press Enter; open a result to see the trade mark details page, documents and status.
For a search by image, use the separate Image Mark Finder (image-mark-finder.ipd.gov.hk).

What IPD requires, as the official sources below state it.

How to file: Application at the Trade Marks Registry, IPD (Form T2, by e-filing, post or in person)
Filing languages: Chinese, English
Several classes in one application: Yes
Classification: Nice Classification
Application fee: HK$2,000 for one class, plus HK$1,000 for each additional class (Form T2)
Renewal fee: HK$2,670 plus HK$1,340 per additional class (Form T8); late renewal charge HK$500
Fees as of: 2026-11-12 (HKD)
Opposition: 3 months beginning on the date the accepted application is published in the Hong Kong Intellectual Property Journal (pre-registration)
Term: 10 years from the filing date, renewable for 10 years at a time
Non-use: Open to cancellation after 3 years without use

Hong Kong keeps its own trade mark register under the Trade Marks Ordinance (Cap. 559); a mark registered in the Chinese Mainland does not automatically receive protection in the Hong Kong SAR.
Every application must give an address for service in Hong Kong: a valid residential or business address, not a P.O. box, virtual office, care-of or mail-forwarding address, and not an email address.
Once registered, a mark's registration dates back to the filing date of the application, and the 10-year term runs from that date of registration.

International

Hong Kong is not a member of the Madrid Protocol, so an international registration through WIPO cannot designate it.

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Sources

Checked 2026-11-12.