Tag: trademark registry
Indian story of GI Application for Basmati Rice!
A geographical indication works as an indicator that allows producers in those areas to distinguish their goods from the goods of their competitors and maintain a reputation and goodwill around their products in order to attract a premium price. Registering a geographical indication in India involves: • identifying protected characteristics; • establishing effective representation and…
E-filing services – Indian Trademark Registry gets 90% digitized
It has been quite some time since our Indian Patent and Trademark Office had launched its online e-filing platform. Of note, the Copyright Board did also launch similar services in 2009, but it did not go well as planned and went completely dysfunctional in a few months of its launch. Most recently in November-December 2013,…
Perfect time to make post-registration changes in your trademark
Normally, post-registration changes such as assignments, corrections, amendments, etc. happen at snail’s pace for several reasons. To tackle that, our CGPDTM has announced a special drive to dispose post-registration changes. The CGPDTM once again initiates a special drive for disposal of requests for recordal of post registration changes in the registered Trademarks. This special drive…
TM registry to hike costs for trademark registration
After the recent hike in patent fees, on August 1, 2013, the Ministry of Commerce and Industry through the Department of Industrial Policy and Promotion has published a draft of the amendments to the Trademark Rules 2002. Please see the gazette notification here This draft notifies essentially two things as given below: Fee for trademark…