Trademark Registration Process
Today, trademark registration in entire India is performed as per the provisions and
rules given in the Trade Marks Act of 1999 (including all amendments made in this so
far) and the Trade Marks Rules of 2017. In India, there are five well-established regional
offices of trademark registry, each of which has jurisdiction over many surrounding
States or/and Union Territories. These offices of trademark registry are located in
Mumbai, Kolkata, Delhi, Chennai, and Ahmedabad. Based on the location of the
applicant company, the application for trademark registration is to be filed with the
relevant office.
Broadly, the trademark registration process covers the following tasks or activities, irrespective of the interested economic fields or trademark classes:
- Creation of a unique trademark or service mark or logo
- Verification of its undebatable uniqueness through nationwide trademark search
- Filing the application for trademark registration in Form TM-A
- Answering questions of the concerned trademark examiner/registrar, and satisfying him regarding registrability of the filed trademark/service mark.
- Quenching any opposition to the registration of the filed mark.
- Offering well-informed and brilliant prosecution for trademark registration
Documents Required for Trademark Registration?
Apart from the appropriate Form (which is Form TM-A) and the prescribed
governmental fees, the other documents required for trademark registration anywhere in
India are the following:
- A soft copy of the newly-created unique mark in JPEG format
- Detailed name, residential/official addresses, and contact number of the applicant company
- A brief description in words of the mark being filed
- The trademark class or classes under which registration is sought
- Some relevant trade-related information about the applicant company
- The trademark or service-mark class and the date of first use (by the applicant) of the mark being filed for registration
- And, other pieces of information of documents which may be demanded by the concerned trademark examiner/registrar