What is Trademark ?
Your Business or Profession gets its distinct legal recognition to gain more prospects, once you register for its trademark from Controller General of Patents, Designs and Trademarks, Ministry of Industry and Commerce, Government of India. Trademark is the first and most important constituent that gives you your exclusive commercial identity in the market and plays vital role to gain popularity, goodwill and exposure. So, a meaningful, unique and attractive choice of trademark should definitely be included in your business launch/promotion plan. Certain features are important for you to know how you can make your ideal Trademark:
Unique and Meaningful:
If your proposed trademark is similar as any already existing registered trademarks then it cannot be registered. So, you’re to make a unique trademark to publicly display/promote your business/profession. Also, customers/clients should easily understand your business/profession type from its layout. Thus, make a meaningful trademark. To specifically match it for your business, there are number of ways by which you can design your exclusive Trademark:
- Name: Used to signify you/your brand/profession/business with your/any related individual’s name
- Meaningful/Special Word/Phrase/Combination of Words and Numbers: Used to highlight/popularize/attract your brand/profession/business
- Image/Graphic/Colour: Used to signify/popularize your brand/profession/business
- Sound Clip: Used to signify/popularize your brand/profession/business
Legal Obligations. Trademarks give you certain legal rights/liabilities:
- In case, you find any other entity using your registered trademark/mimicking it without your sanction, you can put legal charge against that unit as per Trademark Act, 1999.
- You’ll receive ‘TM’ sign to use in your trademark within 3 days.
- It’ll take 2 years to receive the ‘R’ symbol to use with your trademark
- Trademark Registration is valid for 10 years, after expiring this time period, you could renew your trademark registration by filing a trademark renewal application for a time of next 10 years.
- You’re eligible to get your own registered trademark, if you’re a Private Firm, Individual, Company (LLP, Partnership, OPC, Private Limited, Public, etc.), NGOs and even a foreign unit.
Here, we will help you to do the registration of the trademark for your company.
