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Letter marks and Monograms “Mark” is defined to include letters and numerals. However they notoriously lack inherent distinctiveness on account of common and natural practice of firms and persons to use their initials on goods, letter paper and so forth, or to use them as symbols indicative of quality or of other characteristics. Instead of depicting two or more letters […]
Continue reading »Power of Registrar to cancel registration as registered user Trademark is not just a word it’s a right of the trademark owner. Trademark is an exclusive right of your own brand name which may be a mark, logo, word, sign or design which is recognized by the Trademark Registry. The Registered Trademark Agent can only apply your trademark. A trademark […]
Continue reading »Appointment of Registrar and other officers – Trademarks Act, 1999 This clause corresponds to section 4 of the Trade and Merchandise Marks Act, 1958 and provides for appointment of the Registrar and other officers. Comments This section corresponds to section 4 of the Trade and Merchandise Marks Act, 1958. The section provides for appointment of a person designated as the […]
Continue reading »Copyrights and trademark registration – effect: The comparative scopes of a copyrights and trademark registration are different, even though where a design on a wrapper is registered under the copyrights act, there is, to an extent, an overlapping between the two remedies. Some controversy is no doubt possible if the mere jurisdiction of the court to entertain an action for […]
Continue reading »Refusal of registration- relative grounds- trademark registration in Cochin: As under the section 12, a trademark would not be registered if, because Its identity with the earlier trade mark and the similarity of goods or services which are covered by the trademark; or It is very similar to the earlier trademark and the similarity or identity of the goods or […]
Continue reading »Effect of Registration of the parts of the Trademark This article which deals with the effect of registration of parts of a mark seeks to omit the provision relating to requirement of disclaimer and to explicitly state the general proposition that the registration of a trademark confers exclusive right to the use of the trademark taken as a whole and […]
Continue reading »International applications originating from India: Here, we are discussing about the international trademark applications which are originating from India and as well as the corresponding provision which is need to be fulfilled this process. Where an application for the registration of a trademark has been made under section 18 or a trademark has been registered under section 23, the applicant […]
Continue reading »Penalty for Applying False Trademark – Trademark Registration in Cochin This Article provides penalty for applying false trademark, trade description, etc. This Article corresponds to section 78 of the existing Act but removes the distinction between offences in relation to “drugs” or “food” on the one hand and other categories of goods on the other and seeks to enhance the […]
Continue reading »We are going to see the trademark renewal and its procedures with a clear-cut explanation.Keep your eye on this article to know some useful things if you have already registered a trademark or newly going to register the mark. India is growing leaps and bounds as a destination for commerce, with that, the demand for trademark registration is also growing. […]
Continue reading »Rights Conferred by registration This section sets out the rights conferred by registration of a geographical indication. Once registered, a geographical indication shall, if valid give both to the registered proprietor and all authorized users whose names have been entered in Part a and Part B of the register, the right to obtain relief in respect of infringement of the […]
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