Intellectual Property Services

Our discerning, perfect, and dedicated services for IPR in India, cover all diverse categories of intellectual property. The sumptuous commercial and industrial intellectual property is broadly divided into the major categories of copyrights, trademarks, patents, industrial designs, and geographical indications.

Trademark Investigation

Trademark Investigation

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Trademark investigations typically fall into one of three buckets: trademark in-use investigations, trademark infringement investigations, or counterfeit investigations.

We are able to investigate individuals behind the infringement (whether it is your company name, one of your registered/unregistered trademarks or domain names) and provide you with sufficient evidence to take the appropriate action.

We believe that the most important commodity is your brand. Intellectual property and trademark investigations are just one of the services we can offer to assist owners protect their brand.

If you have concerns about your brand or would like Online Investigations to conduct an Intellectual Property investigation, contact us now for an obligation free consultation.

Our Intellectual Property Investigations include:

Counterfeit & Piracy Investigations:

  1. Detection of Infringement
  2. Identification of Threats
  3. Undercover Penetration of Infringing Organizations
  4. Surveillance of Infringing Individuals
  5. Service of Cease-And-Desist Letters
  6. Acquiring Voluntary Surrender of Counterfeit Materials

Copyright & Patent Investigations:

  1. Unauthorized Use of Copyright
  2. Patent Misuse & Infringement
  3. Industrial Design Misuse
  4. Integrated Circuit Topography Design Misuse
  5. Identification of Threats

Trademark Investigations:

  1. Detection of Infringement
  2. Identification of Threats
  3. Date of First Use Determination
  4. Extent of Usage Determination

Market Surveys & Monitoring:

  1. Targeted Automated & Manual Searches of Online and Print Sales Portals
  2. Ongoing & Persistent Monitoring
  3. Compilation & Analysis of Aggregate Data

Frequently Asked Questions

A trademark is for your brand name or logo which identifies your product or services. It can be a word, letter, number, phrase, symbol, shape or combination thereof. A unique brand name or logo is used to differentiate your product/service as distinct from others in the industry. To secure legal protection for your brand name or logo you need to get it registered. On receiving ™ Application number you can start using ™ .

Proprietorships are not regulated by any particular Act, hence there is no registration. Every buiness needs registration under Shop & Establishment Act whether it is providing a service or dealing in goods. Other registrations such as GST etc depend upon nature of product/service.

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A good trademark must have the following qualities:


• Easy to read, spell and remember


• Must be unique and distinctive without any traces of similarity


• Should not be lengthy


• Laudatory word/words such as the best, perfect etc. should be neglected

Conducting a trademark search is important. They are the best way to check if your proposed trade mark does not infringe earlier rights. Even after registration of your trade mark, you should routinely carry out searches because this is the only way to efficiently protect your trade mark. In the absence of any such activity, there will be high chances of being sued for trademark infringement, trademark application rejection and a third-party challenging the trademark application.

Trademark registry publishes the Trademark in Trademark Journal.

No, trademark registration is not mandatory in India but it is advisable to go for it.

A trademark is designated by the following:


• ™ (For an unregistered trademark, a mark used to promote or brand goods)


• ® (For a registered trademark)

Following marks can be registered under the Indian trademark law:


• Names
• Letters
• Devices
• Numerals
• Shape of goods
• Signature
• Slogans
• Sound Marks
• Invented / Coined Words

Trademarks should be registered for a specific product or service. A single trademark application can be submitted to register your product or service under more than one class but the fees for filing under each class increases every time in the same manner as you have filed a single application for trademark under one class.

Yes, being an intellectual property, it can be sold, transferred, gifted or franchised by the owner. 

Yes, a foreigner or a foreign entity can apply for trademark registration in India.

No, trademarks registered in India remain valid only in the country.

Trademark Registration is a complicated process and it takes around 18-24 months to obtain registration in a direct case, without any objections or oppositions. However, the trademark application number is typically issued within one or 2 days after application submission.

Basic Documents are given below:

  • Trademark Application
  • specifications of goods or service for which application is made
  • Representation of mark in prescribed size and format

While both offer intellectual property fortification, they protect different kinds of assets. Copyright is used to protect literary and artistic works, such as books and videos. A trademark defends items that help define a company brand, such as its logo.

In general, trademark registration is valid for a period of 10 years. One needs to renew it after a period of 10 years.

A mark cannot be registered as a trademark if:
• The mark is expected to deceive the public or cause confusion.


• The stuff contained or mentioned in the mark is intended to hurt religious sentiments or any class or section of the citizens of India.


• It is comprised of scandalous or obscene matter

Any individual can make a trademark registration application.

Our Intellectual Property Investigations include:

Counterfeit & Piracy Investigations:

  1. Detection of Infringement
  2. Identification of Threats
  3. Undercover Penetration of Infringing Organizations
  4. Surveillance of Infringing Individuals
  5. Service of Cease-And-Desist Letters
  6. Acquiring Voluntary Surrender of Counterfeit Materials

 

Copyright & Patent Investigations:

  1. Unauthorized Use of Copyright
  2. Patent Misuse & Infringement
  3. Industrial Design Misuse
  4. Integrated Circuit Topography Design Misuse
  5. Identification of Threats

 

Trademark Investigations:

  1. Detection of Infringement
  2. Identification of Threats
  3. Date of First Use Determination
  4. The extent of Usage Determination

 

Market Surveys & Monitoring:

  1. Targeted Automated & Manual Searches of Online and Print Sales Portals
  2. Ongoing & Persistent Monitoring
  3. Compilation & Analysis of Aggregate Data

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Trademark Investigation

₹10,999.00

There is an extensive range of services for each of these categories; that start from the very beginning of a creation to perfect registration and well-rounded protection to the same, in the desired national or international jurisdictions. These all categories of intellectual property are considered as the lifeblood of businesses in the respective fields, and therefore, require scrupulous and flawless handling from beginning to the end. 

Protect your BRAND

TRADEMARK COPYRIGHT PATENT DESIGN

Protection provided for

Any word, logo, symbol, mark, phrase that distinguishes goods of one party from another.

Novel works of authorship, such as books, articles, songs, photographs, sculptures, choreography, sound recordings, motion pictures etc.

Inventions, such as processes, machines, manufactures, compositions of matter as well as improvements to these.

Features of shape, configuration, pattern, ornament, composition of lines, color or combination thereof applied to any article.

Requirements for registration

The mark shall be unique.

The work must be original, creative and should be capable of fixing in the tangible form.

An invention must be new, useful and non-obvious

The design must be original and should be applied to the article by any industrial process.

Duration of Protection

For 10 years

Author’s life plus 70 more years.
For 20 years.

For 10 years.

Rights granted

Rights to use the mark and prevent any third person from using the deceptively similar mark.

Right to control the reproduction, making of derivative works, distribution and public performance and display of the copyrighted works.

Right to prevent others from making, selling using or importing the patented invention.

Provides the creator, exclusive rights over use of the design.

Who can obtain?

Business owners or the product owners.

Authors, artists, choreographers, architects, and other creative professionals.

Inventors and designers.

Designers or the owners of the product.