The process for registration of brand as a trademark will remain same for all type of business activities. Following is the brief procedure for trademark registration.
- Class Search- The very first step is to check the class of trademark. Registry has provided 45 different classes of trademark from which one needs to select in which class the goods or service will fall.
- Availability: Before filing the trademark one should check whether the brand name is available or not from the website of trademark so that there will be less chances of objection.
- Application: After completing the documentation one can make the application through online of offline with the registry.
- Objection: Ministry can raise objection for which reply needs to be filed.
- Publish in Journal: If the objection is cleared by Ministry then the brand will be published in the trademark journal for 4 months.
- Opposition: In such 4 months any 3rd party can raise opposition if they find it similar to their brand name. In such case one has to clear the opposition.
- Registration: If there will no opposition raised or after clearing it the brand gets registered. It will be valid for 10 years from the date of application. After which application for renewal is to be done.
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