Trademark Registration
Protect your brand with Valcus. Our expert team provides hassle-free trademark registration services, ensuring your business is legally secure. Trust us for timely and accurate filing, and safeguard your brand identity today.
A trademark can be any name, logo, a numeral, label, or a visual symbol, which may be a word, a name, a device, a colour combination, sound or smell that represents your business and can be used by a business to differentiate it from other goods of different business. It makes it easier for customers to recognize your business as one that is unique from that of another providing similar goods or services. Any person can be an individual, anyone claiming to be the owner of a company or NGO is authorised for trademark filing.
The trademark owners have the right to use the trademark under the classes they are listed in (there is a total of 45 classes). The trademarks are listed under the Trademark Act 1999 by the Controller General of Patents, Designs, and Trademarks under the Ministry of Commerce and Industry. It makes the trademark owner eligible to sue for damages when violations of trademarks occur.
Digital Signature is mandatory for Trademark registration formalities. Our experts will help you e-verify the documents with authorities as it's mandatory for aspirants to verify an application for trademark registration using a Class III Digital signature and all other documents they submit.
® Symbol Trademark class
The Trademark Registry has a list of 45 Classes to standardise the services or goods, which the trademark will represent, under which all types of goods and services are represented. The trademark request must specify the type of goods or services the trademark will represent under one or more of the classes, so the specific class of goods or services the trademark registration is granted.
Trademark registration is initially valid for ten years and thereafter subsequent renewal will further extend the trademark protection for another period of ten years.
Any trademark registration done in India gives you nationwide protection for your trade and will be valid only in India. However, some countries do use trademark registration in India as a basis for registering the trademark in their own country.
SERVICE MARK- A service mark is similar to a product mark mentioning a service rather than a product. The main function of a service mark is to differentiate its proprietors from the owners of other benefits. Accordingly, trademark applications submitted under trademark classes 35-45 have to be categorized as service marks since it mentions a service.
MARKS IN THE SERIES - These are the marks that have been registered for usage before or after a chain of items having similar suffixes, prefixes, or symbols.
MARK OF SOUND - A sound mark is a sound that might be connected to a product/or service that appears from a particular certain provider. Sound logos, which are known as audio mnemonics, appear at the beginning and end of ads.
Why Valcus?
1. At Valcus we regularly provide you with updates until the registration procedures are complete.
2. We conduct an in-depth search of the Trademark directory
3. We prepare the approval letter, to file registration for the trademark on your behalf.
4. We provide suggestions to you in the classes you need to apply.
5. Our experts provide assistance in filling up the forms with the Registrar.
The TM logo indicates an unregistered trademark that is different from other similar products/ services. As per the Trademark Act, an unregistered Trademark doesn’t get total protection and cannot prevent a third party from using the same mark.
Registered Trademarks come with validity for 10 years from the date of filing the application. The trademark owner is allowed to file for renewal of the trademark as it helps them stay protected for more time prior to the end of the validity.
Yes, businesses and individuals can complete the online procedure of trademark registration by adhering to all the steps. You can get in touch with the experts to know about the correct procedure.
In several cases, a third party raises an objection within four months of the trademark's publication in the trademarks journal. If this thing occurs the registrar of trademarks provides a copy of the opposition notice. You are then supposed to respond to the opposition’s notice within two-month time by filing a counter-statement.
The documents needed to trademark your logo and name includes the name of the applicant, type of business, nature of business (specific goods/services), name of a brand/logo/slogan, and registrant's mailing address with pin code.
By doing the registration of a trademark, businesses or individuals can sue anybody who tries to replicate your trademark and prohibits others from using a similar trademark to the one you have already registered.
Choosing Valcus for the trademark registration service will help you take advantage of our experience in the industry, professional service, and competitive service charges.