On November 17, Trademark Office released Opinions on Deepening the Reform of Facilitating Registration for Trademark to Improve Processing Efficiency of The State Administration for Industry and Commerce of the P.R.C. and put the Opinions on its website. The Opinions include the following contents: at the end of 2017, the time of issuing acceptance notifications for those applying registration for trademark will be reduced from 3 months to 2 months, the examination period for trademark registration will be cut down from 9 months to 8 months. On the above basis, it will achieve following targets: at the first half of 2018, it will further reduce the time for issuing notifications by releasing acceptance notifications for trademark registration via Internet and enabling those who applied to print the notifications directly from the Internet.