IP & Business
Trademark Registration in Ahmedabad
If your business is based in Gujarat or Rajasthan, your trademark application belongs to the Ahmedabad office of the Trade Marks Registry, one of five in India. We work from Ahmedabad, and the attorney who files your application is the one who replies to the examination report and argues your hearing.
The ground
What you are actually dealing with
Which Registry office handles my application?
India's Trade Marks Registry has five offices: Mumbai, Delhi, Kolkata, Chennai and Ahmedabad. The one for you, called the appropriate office, depends on your principal place of business in India as stated in the application. The Ahmedabad office covers Gujarat, Rajasthan, and Dadra and Nagar Haveli and Daman and Diu, and your file, and any opposition to it, sits with that office. The protection itself is national: a mark registered through Ahmedabad is protected across the whole of India.
What changes when you file in Ahmedabad?
The law, the forms and the official fees are the same across India, and filing is online. What a local attorney adds is practical: knowing how hearings at the Ahmedabad office are listed and run, preparing affidavits and evidence of use the way examiners expect to see them, and being able to sit down with you in person when an objection or an opposition needs a decision.
Our part
Your trademark attorneys in Ahmedabad
Ahmedabad is where we work from, and businesses in Gujarat are the largest part of our trademark practice: manufacturers, food and beverage brands, chemical and pharmaceutical companies, textile houses and many first-time founders.
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Hearings attended by the attorney on your file, in person or by video, as the Registry lists them.
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Affidavits and evidence of use drafted and notarised locally, ready for the examiner.
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Meetings at our Ahmedabad office when a decision is better talked through than emailed.
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Renewal dates and Registry deadlines tracked, so a registered mark is never lost to a missed date.
Scope
What this engagement covers
- Trademark search and a written opinion on whether your mark can be registered
- Trademark filing at the Ahmedabad Registry for Gujarat and Rajasthan businesses
- Replies to examination reports and objections, and hearing attendance
- Trademark opposition, rectification and cancellation
- Renewal, assignment, licensing and recording changes
- International filing through the Madrid Protocol for Gujarat exporters
How it runs
The process, stage by stage
No stage carries a promised date. The Registry's queue is not ours to commit on your behalf. What we commit to is doing our part of each stage without delay.
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Search
We search the Registry and the market for similar marks and tell you in writing whether your mark can be registered, and in which classes.
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File
We file your application (Form TM-A) online with the Ahmedabad office, under the right classes and with a clear description of your goods or services.
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Reply
If the examination report raises objections, we reply in writing within one month and argue the hearing if the examiner is not yet satisfied.
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Register
The mark is published in the Trade Marks Journal for a four-month opposition window, then registered for ten years from the filing date. We track the renewal date for you.
Common questions
Questions we are asked most often
Yes. Trademark registration is national. The Ahmedabad office only processes the application; the registered mark is protected throughout India.
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