Register your brand name or logo and get the exclusive right to use it, plus the ® once granted.
A trademark is what stops a competitor trading under your name. Registration gives the proprietor the exclusive right to use the mark for the goods or services registered, and the right to sue for infringement rather than relying on the slower and harder action for passing off.
Marks are registered in classes under the Nice Classification — forty-five of them, thirty-four for goods and eleven for services. Protection extends only to the classes applied for, so a name registered for software is not protected against the same name used on clothing.
Filing is fast; registration is not. The application number and the ™ symbol are available within days, but examination, publication in the Trade Marks Journal, and the opposition period mean registration and the ® typically take twelve to twenty-four months.
| What is included |
Basic ₹4,999.00 |
Standard ₹7,999.00 |
Premium ₹12,999.00 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Public search on the IP India database | |||
| Registrability opinion | |||
| Application filing in 1 class | |||
| Form TM-48 authorisation | |||
| Filing receipt and TM number delivered to your vault | |||
| Examination report review | |||
| Objection reply drafting (one reply) | |||
| Status monitoring until registration | |||
| Hearing representation | |||
| Opposition monitoring | |||
| Registration certificate delivered to your vault |
Search and filing in one class.
Filing plus examination support.
Filing through to registration, including a hearing.
Prices are our professional fee. Government fees and stamp duty are extra and shown separately.
Any person, firm, company or other entity claiming to be the proprietor of a mark, whether already in use or proposed to be used, may apply.
The mark must be capable of distinguishing your goods or services. Marks that are purely descriptive, generic, deceptive, or identical or confusingly similar to an existing registration are liable to objection.
Startups, individuals and MSMEs pay a reduced government fee.
This is the same list we turn into your live checklist once you order, so nothing is a surprise later.
Public search of the IP India database and a registrability opinion.
Day 1–2Logo file, user affidavit where claiming prior use, and TM-48 signed.
Day 2–4Application filed and the TM application number issued.
Day 4–5Examination report issued; objection reply filed if raised.
Day 30–180Published in the Journal; registered if unopposed.
Day 180–540| Our professional fee
Standard package |
₹7,999.00 |
| Trademark application, individual/startup/MSME (per class) e-filing rate. |
₹4,500.00 |
| Trademark application, other applicants (per class) e-filing rate. |
₹9,000.00 |
| GST @ 18% on our fee | ₹1,439.82 |
There is no penalty for not registering. The exposure is commercial: without registration you cannot sue for infringement, and someone else may register your name and require you to stop using it.
Using the ® symbol before registration is itself an offence — until the certificate issues, the correct symbol is ™.
A registration is valid for ten years from the date of application and is renewable indefinitely in ten-year blocks. Renewal may be filed within six months before expiry, and there is a surcharge window after it.
We put the renewal date in your register the day the certificate issues, because ten years is long enough for everyone involved to have forgotten.
The application number arrives within days and you can use ™ immediately. Registration itself typically takes twelve to twenty-four months, driven by examination, journal publication and the four-month opposition period. Nobody can compress the statutory periods.
Classes group goods and services — forty-five in all. You need every class you actually trade in. Applying in classes you do not use adds fee without adding useful protection, and a mark can be removed for non-use.
No. Until the certificate issues you must use ™. Using ® before registration is an offence under the Trade Marks Act.
The examiner issues a report and you file a reply, sometimes followed by a hearing. Objections are common and frequently overcome. Our Standard package includes one objection reply; the Premium package includes hearing representation.
Yes. Filing over an existing similar mark wastes the fee and the time, and can invite opposition. The search is the cheapest part of the process and the part that most changes the outcome.
No. Trademark rights are territorial. Protection abroad requires filing in each country or through the Madrid Protocol.
Opposition must be filed within four months of publication. It becomes a contested proceeding with evidence and a hearing, quoted separately from registration.
Answer an examination report properly, within the deadline, and keep the application alive.
Renew a registration for a further ten years before it lapses.
Register literary, artistic, musical, cinematographic or software works for evidentiary protection.
Protect the shape, configuration, pattern or ornamentation of an article for up to fifteen years.
Secure a priority date for your invention while you develop the complete specification.