Trademark Application
All that you must understand about trademark application:
Statutory provisions
Types of Application
It refers to the trademark application filed for a single class of goods or services based on the Nice Classification. An ordinary application for trademark registration can be made in Form TM-A along with the prescribed fees.
2. Multiclass Trademark Application:
A Multi-class trademark application is filed when the brand to be registered is connected with more than one class of goods or services. A Multi-class trademark application for trademark registration can be made in Form TM-A along with the prescribed fees. Form TM-A provides for the filing of a single application for different classes.
Key points to remember for Multi-class Trademark applications
- The multi-class application will be considered as a single application and will be processed jointly.
- Time-saving and less documentation in a multi-class application
- There will be no change in fees. If the applicant files a multi-class application for two classes, he will have to pay twice the fees paid for a single application. No concessions as such are present for multi-class registration.
- Delay in one class application registration may halt the entire registration process.
- Trademarks should be applied to each class in which registration is applied.
Priority/Convention Trademark Application
What does it State?
Form: A Convention Trademark Application can be made for single-class or multi-class in the Form TM-A.
How to file trademark application
- Manual filing
- E-filing
Contents of a trademark application
- Details Of The Applicant
- Details Of The Mark
- Class Of The Goods Or Services
- Description Of The Mark
- Details Of The Attorney
- User Claim If Any
- Date Of Filing Of The Application
- Correspondence Of The Applicant
Apart from the above-mentioned categories of the trademark application, the Trademark Act,1999 also accords protection and provides registration of series or fluid marks, collective marks, and Combination Marks.