Procedure to Register a Trademark for a Company
Trademark registration process is not as complex as ensuring that the prospective trademark is unique. The process itself involves rejection of any similar trademark. Hence, ensuring that your trademark is unique is quite an important part of the process. So, before learning how to register a trademark, an applicant must understand the process to mark its uniqueness too. This might make the whole registration process a bit complex for some companies.
To make the process simpler, the companies should hire a good graphic designer to create a trademark which is unique and reflects the ethos of the business. This will automatically make the trademark different from the other and will make it easy to register. In the following section, we will understand the process to register trademark for a company. We will also look into the set of documents required to get a registered trademark assigned for your business.
Steps for Trademark Registration:
The procedure to get your trademark approved from the MCA is explained below:
1. Select a distinctive mark or logo which relates to your business or the ideology of the firm. The selected mark could also represent the essence of the company or its objective.
2. The process of selecting a trademark could become a time taking process for businesses. Hence, it is recommended that they hire a business and legal consultancy firm to handle the complete process on their behalf.
3. Post hiring the legal consultancy firm, the applicant should conduct a research test with their assistance to mark the authenticity of their logo. As per the rules of registration, a trademark which is found similar to any existing trademark will be rejected by the authority during registration and fee paid for it won't be refunded.
4. After establishing the uniqueness of the prospective trademark, the company can choose the category category trademark registration. They can also choose multiple categories for registration if it suits their business.
5. The applicant will pay the requisite fee for the registration along with the documents to the Trademark registrar.
6. The trademark registrar scrutinises the application and trademark for duplicate issues.
7. Post successful verification, the registrar will publish the applied logo in the Trademark Journal. If there's no objection concerning the applied trademark from any party for three months, it will get the final approval.
8. After this period, the applicant gets a trademark registration certificate from the authority.
9. If any objection comes in view of the registrar, then he can direct the applicant to make tweaks in the trademark to rectify the objections.
Documents for Registration
1. Copy of chosen symbol or logo.
2. Details of the company’s business.
3. ID and address proof of the applicant.
4. Other documents specified by the registrar.
To Conclude
Registering a trademark could become a tricky process for new businesses. The time consumed in such a process can also affect the business. Thus, as mentioned earlier, hiring a business associate to complete the registration formalities is the best way. These firms can also do extensive research to establish the authenticity of the logo.
