TRADE MARK, COPYRIGHT, PATENT AND DESIGN REGISTRATIONS

TRADE MARK REGISTRATIONS

Trade Mark Registrations are carried out under the Trade Marks Act, 1999.

TRADE MARK REGISTRATION

-Protects your goodwill which you have earned by being in business for a long period of time.
-Protects your Name / Brand Name from being used in a same or similar fashion, by any other business firm and thus discourages others from cashing on your Name for their wrong benefit.
-Prevents other firms from trying to register or use the Name which you have already registered / or have applied for Registration. It also protects any unique names.
-Gives an impression to your customers that the company is selling some standard Products / Services.
-Gives your products a status of ‘Branded Goods’

Trade Mark Registration can be done of

a) any Brand, Heading, Label, Ticket, Name, Sign, Word, Numeral or any Combination of any of these.

b) any Slogan, Base Line, etc. which are used to describe any product better.
Copyright Registrations :
Copyright Registrations protect your brand name further by Registration of your Logos or the manner in which you write your Brand Name. When Copyright Registration is done,the Registration of the Artistic Work ie. your original work of Art.

Copyright Registration can also be done of any :
- Artistic Work (as stated above) i.e. Logo, etc.
- Book / Literary Work
- Software / Computer Programme
- Work of Architecture
- Cinematograph Film
- Sound Recording (A Cassette / A Record)

Copyright Registrations

Copyright Registrations protect your brand name further by Registration of your Logos or the manner in which you write your Brand Name. When Copyright Registration is done,the Registration of the Artistic Work ie. your original work of Art.

Copyright Registration can also be done of any

- Artistic Work (as stated above) i.e. Logo, etc.
- Book / Literary Work
- Software / Computer Programme
- Work of Architecture
- Cinematograph Film
- Sound Recording (A Cassette / A Record)

Patent Applications :

Patent can be applied for in respect of any invention in respect of any new and useful :
- Art, Process Method or Manner of Manufacture
- Any Machine, Apparatus or Other Article
- Any Substance produced by Manufacture and includes any new and useful improvement
- of any of them.

Designed Registrations :

Under this, Shape Configuration or Pattern of any Article (Industrial, Consumer Products, etc.) is registered under Designes Act, 2000. The registration is to be renewed after 10 years.

TRADEMARK

Old Central Building, 101, M. K. Road, Mumbai - 400 020
22017368 / 22039050
22013694 / 22053372
tmrmum@bom5.vsnl.net.in
BRANCHES

National Chambers,
15/27, 1st Floor, Ashram Road,
Ahmedabad-380009
079-6580567 / 7193
079-6586763
root@tmrbguj.guj.nic.in
tmrahm@ad1.vsnl.net.in
1st Floor,
15/1, Chowringhee Square,
Kolkata-700069
033-2482738 / 2840
033-2482738
tmrcalbr@wb.nic.in / tmrcalbr@cal2.vsnl.net.in
Okhla Indl.Estate,
New Delhi-110020
011-6310184 / 2045
011-6310184
tmrd@hub.nic.in / tmrdel@ndf.vsnl.net.in
Rajaji Bhavan,
2nd Floor, D Wing, Besant Nagar,
Chennai-600090
044-4902791 / 2789
044-4902787
tmrchebr@tn.nic.in / tmrchebr@md3.vsnl.net.in
COPYRIGHT

Registrar of Copyrights, Copyright Office, Ministry of Human Resource Development, Kasturba Gandhi Marg,New Delhi - 110 011
011 - 338 24 58
22013694 / 22053372
zt.edu@sb.nic.in
PATENTS & DESIGN

The Patents Office, Nizam Palace, 2nd MSO Bldg., 234/4, Acharya Jagdish Bose Road, Kolkata - 700 020
033 - 2474401 / 02 / 03
033 - 2473851
patentin@vsnl.com / patindia@giascl01.vsnl.net.in
BRANCHES

W-5,West Patel Nagar, New Delhi-110008
011-5871255 / 56 / 57 / 58
011-5876209 / 2532
delhipatent@vsnl.com
Todi Estate, 3rd Floor,
Sun Mill Compound, Lower Parel (W),
Mumbai-400013
022-4925092 / 4058
022-4920622
Rajaji Bhavan, 3rd Floor, C Wing, Besant Nagar, Chennai-600090
044-4901495 / 96 / 3686
044-4901492 / 0931
chpatent@tn.nic.in