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India is full of opportunities when someone is thinking of starting up a new business. It is important to protect your brand or product in the market, and therefore it is important to protect your brand or product from being misused by any third person. Trademark protection fulfills this requirement by giving protection to your product or brand, it gives exclusive right to the owner of Trademark for its use. If any person is found of taking undue benefit of the same or is found to be illegally using the brand in his name by commercially exploiting it then the owner of the Trademark could claim over its brand by filing an infringement suit in the competent court.
A good Trademark must be unique and distinct and it should not be similar or close to the already registered mark. If it is similar to the already registered mark, then the court is the one which decides upon the use, strength and Popularity of the Trademark. This is how you can stop a third party or another party to illegally use your Trademark.
Trademark law is governed by Trademark Act, 1999. Trademark applications could be filed online and offline as well. However, filing of an online application helps you to avail 10% discount on the same like filing of a trademark application manually then government fees would be of Rs. 5,000/- and if the same is filed electronically then government fees is just of Rs. 4,500/- for individuals and proprietorship firms.
Following are the information which are required to be filled while filing of a Trademark form-
In order to get Trademark protection in India there are some procedures which everybody has to follow. Different products and services are covered under different classes of goods and services for Trademark.
There are several Trademark classes of goods and services. Lists of the Trademark classes are mentioned below-
Trademark classes for Services