Basically trade mark registration is the protection of your brand or company for duplication of products or services. If your brand has not been registered then anyone can easily copy your logo or product or trade name and your business can suffer due to such duplication.
In other way, if your brand has not been registered but it has good goodwill in the market and anyone get registration in the name of your brand. After getting the Trade Mark Registration such person can file sue against you and also demand for the compensation. In such case you will have to stop you product and will have to pay compensation to this person.
- Name of Trademark
- Nature of Product or Services
- MSME Registration Certificate (if any)
- Power of Attorney (POA)
- Board Resolution in case of Company
- Registered Address of Entity
- Logo of the Entity (JPG)
- Proprietor/Director/Partners' Aadhar Card
- PAN Card of the Directors
- PAN Card of LLP/Company
- Email ID of the company
- Mobile No for the Company
The owner of Registered Trademark enjoys exclusive right over the trademark. The owner can use the same for all the products falling under the class(es) applied. Further, the owner can enjoy the sole ownership of the Trademark and can stop other from the unauthorised use of the Trademark under the same class where it is registered. It gives the right to sue the unauthorized user of the Trademark Registered.
The established quality of your product and services are known by everyone through the trademark and which establishes trust and goodwill among the customers in market. It helps in creating permanent customers who are loyal and always opt for the same brand.
Registration of Trademark creates an intangible asset i.e. Intellectual Property for an organisation. Registered trademark is a right created which can be sold, assigned, franchised or commercially contracted. Also, the Trademark is an intangible asset which gives the advantage to the organisation.
No competitor or other person can use the wordmark or logo registered by you under trademark. However, if in any case one uses it without the approval of the owner of trademark or make any deceptive use of same, the owner can get the legal protection under the Act and stop the person doing so.
A registered trade mark can be licensed. A trade mark licence can be recorded on the trade mark register, giving the licensee rights to institute legal proceedings in the event of infringement.
Trademark registration deters other traders from using trademarks that are similar or identical to yours in relation to goods and services like yours. By using the ® symbol, you put others on notice of your rights.
Trademark registration is prima facie evidence of the validity of the registration and the rights conveyed by registration. In legal proceedings relating to registered trademarks the fact that a person is registered as the proprietor of the trademark is evidence of the validity of the original registration of the trademark unless the contrary is proved.
The right to use the symbol ® or “R” or word registered