Trademark Registry and Register of Trademark, Property in a Trademark

Trademark Registry

•Registrar and other officers (s. 3)

–Controller-General of Patents, Designs and Trade Marks appointed by Central Government

•Power of registrar to withdraw or transfer cases pending before an officer appointed under s. 3 (s. 4)

•Trade Marks Registry (s. 5)

–As established under Trade and Merchandise Marks Act, 1958

–Head Office: Mumbai 

Register of Trade Marks (s. 6)

•Record to be maintained at HO: 

–Registered TMs with names, addresses, description of proprietors, registered users, notifications of assignments and transmission, conditions, limitations etc. 

–Copy to be kept at branch office 

•Indexes maintained: 

–Registered TM 

–Applications for registrations 

–Names of proprietors 

–Names of registered users 

Property in a Trade Mark

•Proprietary rights 

–Through actual use in the marketplace or 

–Through registration of marks with the Registry 

•Features of a property 

–Control over the use of the property. 

–Right to take any benefit from the property 

–Right to transfer or sell the property 

–Right to exclude others from the property. 

When you may lose this right?

•Non payment of renewal fee 

•Non use for a length of time