Track all of your Trademarks

Getting started with Trademarks

A trademark, trade mark, or trade-mark is a recognizable sign, design, or expression which identifies products or services of a particular business from those of others. Trademarks help business protect the quality they are offering under a particular name to be protected from being used and misused by others.

Why TradeMark and its benefits

It is unique symbol which distinguishes your product or service from others. It should be easy to speak and remember with its uniqueness.

Benefits:

1. Protects company's name or logo
2. Owner obtains the future right to restrict use by anyone else
3. Owner receives the validation of being the owner of the mark
4. Decreases the likelihood of another party claiming that your trademark infringes upon their trademark

Category of mark
One can protect following through trademark Such as:

1. Colour
2. Device (Logo)
3. Shape of Goods
4. Sound Mark
5. Three Dimension
6. Word

What are the steps in trademark registration?

A lawyer, Chartered accountant or a Company secretary will help you get your trademark done. We at Track my Trademark will help you get through the process from the comfort of your home. We help you with following:

• Public Search of TradeMark
• Choosing of correct Trademark class
• Type of form of entity you should apply your trademark
• Filing of Application with Trademark Authorities
• Filing of clarification, objection raised by Trademark Authorities.

FAQs:

Que 1: What is public search for trademark?
Ans: Public search is the first step before filing any trademark application. This helps you to find out if someone else has already registered trademark as yours or a similar trademark. These trademarks are available in public domain and can be looked up at the official site of trademark.

Que 2: Does registering a trademark under one trademark class means that the trademark is registered under all classes?
Ans: No. Trademarks are subject to two level restrictions, business vertical and geography. If you have registered trademark for one particular business type, someone can use it for other business or he can use it outside the country

Que 3: Registered trademark in India will be considered as a register in the whole world?
Ans: No. Trademarks are subject to two level restrictions, business vertical and geography. If you have registered trademark for one particular business type, someone can use it for other business or he can use it outside the country

Que 4: Can a trademark be registered in more than one class?
Ans: Yes, there is no restriction on registering a trademark in more than one class. You can apply in all the classes in one single application or you can apply in different application.

Que 5: How can a trademark be registered in different classes?
Ans: There are two ways to register a trademark in different classes. Either file an application for all classes or enter separate applications for each class.

Que 6: Under an application, if filing applications for different classes, the fees for the application will be similar to the application filed for one class only?
Ans: No, because the government fee is per trademark per class.

Que 7: How long does the trademark take to register?
Ans: It get approved from the government authorities within a year.

Que 8: Is government duty equal to every form of business?
Ans: No, the fees varies for individual and corporate form of entities