Trademark
A trademark is a distinguishing visual component that a business uses to set itself apart from similar goods or services offered by other businesses. It can be a word, name, number, label, color combination, etc. It is necessary to register your trademark if it is a unique good or service you are offering so that no one will copy or misuse the trademark that is already registered.
It helps extend the business and its growth under a licensing agreement; a trademark may be rented, and royalties may be earned. The franchising model is entirely dependent on the transfer and licensing of trademarks.
Our team of highly skilled attorneys offers value-added trademark expertise to guarantee that clients maximize the value of their trademark assets. Our services start from the trademark search to protection and brand management.
We can assist any type of entity with matters of trademarks, be it regular mark registration or the creation of strategies for obtaining rights in modern branding campaigns incorporating colors, shapes, and sounds.
Assistance and Advisory:
- Indus Marks helps in the clearance of search locally and internationally for the availability of the mark and logo that the client proposed to file for registration..
- Filing and prosecution of Trademark applications before the Registry including Madrid applications.
- We assist in checking the progress of the application filed and update the status to the client.
- Our firm advises on replying to objections and opposition received from the registry and opposite party and our professional can draft a strong reply and counter statements to the same.
- A registration certificate from the Registrar of Trademark Office is provided after completion of the process.
- Indus Maks assists in the renewal process after the expiry of the duration (10 years).
Copyright
Copyright is a legal right of the owner of intellectual property. It protects the original work of the creator from unauthorized duplication or use only when it becomes tangible. Not all the work such as ideas, theories, discoveries, etc., The work should be in tangible form to get the copyright. Any ideas, theories, discoveries, or music compositions have to be written down and should be in physical form to get the Copyright.
We assist and advise our clients in filing, Registration, Objections, Licensing, transfers, Audit, and Compliance of Copyright at a minimal cost and time.
Patent
A patent is an exclusive right granted for an invention, which is a product or a process that provides, in general, a new way of doing something, or offers a new technical solution to a problem. Technical information about the invention must be disclosed to the public in a patent application to obtain a Patent.
We assist clients in applying for patents in India and other nations and also manage the continual prosecution of the patents. We counsel, support, and represent our clients In all areas of patent filing such as:
- Prosecution
- Drafting
- Opposition
- Revocation
- Portfolio and litigation management
- Anti-piracy measures
- Assignment, licensing, and transfer
- Litigation
Design
Design is the physical appearance of the featured product such as its shape, pattern, ornament or composition, configuration, colours or line applied to any article in two dimensional or three dimensional or both forms. Design right is enforceable only upon the registration of the design that allows the owner of the design to prevent third parties infringe the right from producing, importing, selling or distributing the products which is identical in appearance.
According to Design Act 2000 any person claiming to be the proprietor of any new or original design which has not been previously published anywhere and is not against any policy or morality can make an application for registration of the design and accordingly, and after the examination by the examiner the registry may register the design.
We assist our clients with the procedures for the registration step by step:
- Filing of an application in the patent office in the prescribed form and fees specifying the class in which the design is to be registered.
- Reply to the objections sent by the examiner with regard to the defects in the application and assist in correction of the defects and resubmit the application to the patent office for the acceptance within the 6 months from the official date of the application.
- Once the design is registered a registration certificate will be provided from the patent office which lasts for the period of 10 years from the date of registration. The term can be extended for another 5 years by paying the prescribed fee.