Advantages

• The registration symbol (where R is written and is covered in circle) can be used after the trademark is registered successfully.
• Protection from competitors even in case there is a similar mark to the registered mark.
• Exclusive right to use trademark ownership nationwide and for all the products that are listed in the registration.

Disadvantages

• Owner need to show proof of use at regular intervals.
• Failure to show proof on time related to trademark, lead to the loss of trademark registration rights.
• Sometimes it is considered that trademark is the weakest form of intellectual property because it only protects the marketing concept and not the product itself.

Trademark Search

Before starting, the registration process a business person or a trademark professional must search for trademark in the trademark database. This will provide you information that your trademark is similar or identical to the already existed trademark or not.

Filing Forms for Registration

After completion of trademark search, application for trademark registration is filed with the Trademark Registrar.it must be made in the prescribed form along with the fees.

Trademark application allotment

After the registration of Trademark by filing forms, than a trademark application for allotment number is provided within one or two working days.

Vienna Codification

Vienna Codification is established by the Vienna Agreement 1973, it is an international classification of the figurative elements of marks. The Trademark registrar will apply for the for the Vienna classification to check its international applicability.

Issue of Examination report

Once Vienna classification is completed, the process will be further allotted to a Trademark Officer in the trademark registrar Office. Now the question for claiming to the trademark will start, where the government will verify whether the application is having any objections. If there is no objection then letter of acceptance will be issued. And if there is an objection, then your trademark lawyer needs to file a response to the objection and present the distinctiveness of your trademark.

Trademark Journal Publication

When the trademark registration is finally accepted by the trademark Registrar, then the proposed trademark is published in the Trademark Journal. The trademark Journal is published weekly and contains the list of all the trademarks that have been accepted by the Trademark registrar.

Trademark Registration

Finally when there is no objection for the trademark registration application, then the trademark manuscript and trademark registration certificate will be prepared and once the registration certificate is issued then the trademark is considered as a registered trademark.