Intellectual Property
Trademark
To get early trademark registration try to Choose a unique and distinctive mark to avoid different stages such as objection by trademark registry and the opposition by third party and can get the registration certificate in around 6 to 8 months A trademark is a visual symbol which may be a word, signature, name, device, label, numerals, or combination of colors used by one undertaking on goods or services or other articles of commerce to distinguish it from other similar goods or services originating from a different undertaking.
Trademarks are protected by intellectual property rights. A trademark identifies the brand owner of a particular product or service.
Trademark grants the right to use the registered trademark symbol: ®, after the completion of the Process.
It also grants the right to file a trademark infringement lawsuit in Court to protect our Misused logo and Goodwill.
When we say unique it also means that you need to get your trademark registered as soon as possible because it cannot be predicted as to when exactly someone else is going to have the same idea and get it registered before you do.
TM can be used from the date of filing of the application with authority. Trademark Authority generally takes approx one and half years to issue the certificate and since the date of certification, you become the legal owner of the Trademark of your brand name and use ® symbol with your brand name.
WE ARE DEALT WITH FOLLOWING PROCEDURE
- TRADEMARK REGISTRATION PROCESS
- TRADEMARK TRANSFERS AND ASSIGNMENTS.
- OPPOSITION ( does not apply in each and every application)
- TRADEMARK RENEWALS INTERNATIONAL
- TRADEMARK FILING
Copyright
Copyright, a form of intellectual property law, protects original pieces of work such as literature, cinema/film, photography, music, art, poetry, novels, Painting, speech, songs, computer programs, etc. Copyright Registration will give exclusive and complete rights to the creator of the work.
It essentially ensures that any creative work cannot be copied without the permission of the author or creator. This allows the author to charge others for copying his work, or modifying it, or building on top of it. So if you have any unique content that is important for you and you want to protect that, then you can copyright that content with the help of experts of Tradeline.
Copyright ensures certain minimum safeguards of the rights of authors over their creations, thereby protecting and rewarding creativity. Creativity being the keystone of progress, no civilized society can afford to ignore the basic requirement of encouraging the same. The economic and social development of society is dependent on creativity. The protection provided by copyright to the efforts of writers, artists, designers, dramatists, musicians, architects and producers of sound recordings, cinematograph films, and computer software creates an atmosphere conducive to creativity, which induces them to create more and motivates others to create.
The copyright registration is a lengthy process since it can take up to 10 to 12 months. Copyright registration is important because it can protect your rights for years, even after your death.
PROCEDUR FOR COPYRIGHT REGISTRATION
- Step 1: Filing the Application
- Step 2: Examination
- Step 3: Registration
Patent
Patent registration can be obtained for an innovation. A patent is an exclusive right granted by the government to the inventor of an invention that is new, unique, and has an inventive solution to a pre-existing technical problem.
An exact check is done before a patent registration is obtained to know that the product is new and innovative and to check if there is an invention that is the same or similar to the applicant’s invention.
A patent is a form of intellectual property rights (IPR) that gives its owner the legal right to exclude others from making, using, or selling an invention for a limited period of years in exchange for publishing an enabling public disclosure of the invention. In most countries, patent rights fall under private law and the patent holder must sue someone infringing the patent in order to enforce his or her rights. Patents are a right granted to an inventor that allows them to exclude all others from making, using, or selling their invention for 20 years.
PROCEDUR FOR PATENT REGISTRATION
Patent Search :
- Drafting and filing the patent application
- Publication of the patent application
- Request for the patent examination
- Reply to objections Grant of patent
Design Registration
Design registration is a type of intellectual property protection that provides the creator, exclusive rights to use the design for the next 10 years and can be further extended for five years.
“Design” means only the features of shape, configuration, pattern, ornament, or composition of lines or colors applied to any article whether in two dimensional or three dimensional or in both forms, by any industrial process or means, whether manual, mechanical or chemical, separate or combined, which in the finished article appeal to and are judged solely by the eye; but does not include any mode or principle of construction or anything which is in substance a mere mechanical device and does not include any trademark.
Process of design registration
- Filing the application
- Examination of application
- filing response to examination
- Personal hearing in design office
- certificate of design registration