Trademark Registration

A trademark is any unique expression related to a product or service that distinguishes it from others. A trademark can be a visual symbol, which may be a word, a name, a device, label or numerals used by a business to distinguish it from other goods of different business.

Trademark Assignment

Ideal for people who wants to transfer their trademark to another person

Trademark Search

Intellectual property protection is a vital procedure in order to protect your hardwork in terms of creative and innovative projects. Trademark registration thus becomes pivotal in order to distinguish your brand and products from similar themed-businesses. However, before getting started with the Trademark filing, you have to perform a trade mark search. A trademark public search helps ensure that your proposed trademark or word mark isn’t in violation of any pre-existing trademarks. The public search of trademark is done by checking the proposed trademark for violations against the database of existing wordmarks consistent with the ip india public search.

Trademark Renewal

A registered trademark has 10 years of validity. After that it needs renewal. You do not need to worry if you forget to renew it as you will receive a prior notice at your registered office regarding the renewal of your trademark. Usually, companies forget to renew their trademark. So, the Registrar informs them regarding the same 6 months before expiration. Still, if there is no action from your side, then Registrar issues a statement which says that your trademark would be removed from Trade Marks Journal. It is a very long process and takes at least 6-12 months after expiration. So before that, you can renew it by just paying the amount of fine to the department.

Trademark Objection

But due to some valid reasons, trademark offices can have objections on any trademark application which does not meet their legal norms. There can be many reasons for trademark objection. It can be due to the similarity between logo or word with any existing one. It may be due to the sentiments attached with any religion. These are few reasons which can lead to trademark objection. If you receive any objection like this from another party, then you need to respond back within a month, that is within 30 days. You will receive a proper legal objection letter from Trademark department. But if you still don’t take any steps, then the Registrar has the full rights to abandon the application.