Register Logo Charter For Free

Step 1: Trademark search: (time needed: 4?5 hours) ... Step 2: Class and documents Search (5?6 hours) ... Step 3: Trademark application: (time needed: 2?5 days) ... Step 4: Trademark registration: (time needed: 8?24 months) ... Filing of Form TM-1. ... Use your Trademark. ... Issue of Examination Report. ... Advertisement in the Trade Marks Journal.

You will need to file an application with the Trademark Office and pay the required fee. Once your Logo Trademark Registration is approved, your logo will be registered as a trademark in India and you will have the exclusive right to use it.

How you choose to protect your trademark is up to you. You are not required to register your trademark, but where or whether you decide to register your trademark can determine the scope of your rights. Specifically, you can rely on common law rights or file for state, federal, or international trademark registration.

Is a logo subject to copyright? Yes. A logo that includes artistic or design elements, (i.e. not just the name on its own), is legally regarded as being a work of artistic creation and therefore will be protected under copyright law. Copyright protects the logo as an artistic work.

If you do not register your trademark, you will have legal rights only within the geographic areas where you operate. This means you may be able to stop a subsequent user of the mark, even if it is a bigger company, from using the mark in your geographic area only.

There is no way to register a logo trademark for free because you will always have to pay at least a small fee that covers the costs of examining and processing your trademark application.

Protection Against Infringement and Other Legal Protection The owner of a registered trademark can exercise his legal rights in case there is any infringement with regard to the owner's logo, brand, a slogan that has an active trademark against it.