Trademark Protection & IP Law Services
Vrin Legal is a leading intellectual property lawyer firm with a strong commitment to providing strategic solutions for trademark protection in India. Regardless of whether you are a startup, SME or a global company, our team of professionals will provide you with expert trademark and IP law services from registration to enforcement and portfolio management
Why your trademark protection is important?
Why Trademark protection is not just a legal obligation, it is a strategic move to protect your brand and the reputation of your brand in the marketplace.
1. Legal rights
Trademark registration grants legal rights to use a brand identity; it will legally prevent third parties from exploiting or infringing your reputation in the marketplace.
2. Brand value
When a trademark is fully protected, it increases consumer trust, increased brand equity and an enhanced position in the market place; as the brand, trademarks themselves, generate economic value and become business assets.
3. Enhance Expansion & Enforcement
A registered mark facilitates a global expansion, provides international priority, offers anti-counterfeiting benefits via customs protection, and allows you to obtain statutory remedies against infringers.
Our Trademark Protection Process
1. Trademark Search & Clearance
Our team of lawyers from intellectual property does a comprehensive search of national and international databases (covering word, device, sound, and non-traditional marks), to find existing marks that can impede your application prior to filing the trademark.
2.Use of Application & Prosecution
We prepare and file trademark applications in India pursuant to the Trade Marks Act, 1999 (and under the Madrid Protocol from WIPO internationally), while considering the numerous changes, such as registration for 3D shapes and sound marks.
3. Review & Response
Our team keeps record of official objections, queries from examiners and oppositions. As your intellectual property lawyer, we will respond accurately, provide arguments, and negotiate changes to enable the smooth progression of your trademark through to registration.
4. Registration & Post-Registration Support
After successful registration, we can help you protect your rights, by filing for renewals, affidavits of use, and by devising protection strategies to help you maintain exclusive use of your trademarks and avoid abandonment.
Global IP Management Services
Worldwide Trademark Portfolio/Clearance
The world operates on a first-to-file basis and, as such, you should be careful when planning your branding strategy. We can guide you in your brand selection/clearance, prepare your multi-territory filing with Madrid, and deal with renewals to maintain worldwide trademark protection.
Licensing & Assignments
Whether we are preparing licensing agreements or carrying out transfers of IP, we will ensure your trademarks and intellectual property maintain value - and can create and generate income for you within finalized proposals.
Enforcement & Dispute Resolution
We are always on the lookout for trademark infringements and other market filings. As your trademark lawyer, we will provide cease-and-desist letters, represent you in opposition or cancellation proceedings, or file infringement cases and pursue you in court or tribunal.
Anti-Counterfeiting & Customs Enforcement
Think beyond the borders. We help register trademarks with Indian Customs so that they can prevent counterfeit imports. In addition, we can advise you on policing online marketplaces and take-down processes.
Why Partner with Us?
Field Specific IP Expertise
At fit-for-purpose IP, our team of lawyers pairs legal expertise with commercial pragmatism, meaning we can create best-fit trademark protection strategies that suit your sustainable growth objectives.
Proactive, Client First Orientation
We don’t just passively monitor legal issues – we actively monitor and enforce your rights in IP. We look after your deadlines like renewals, deadlines, alerts for deadlines, and brand audits.
Integrated IP Advice
We combine our trademark services with patents, design rights, copyright, and trade secret advice to provide seamless IP advice for innovative companies and brand-based businesses.
What does an Intellectual Property Lawyer do?
A municipal and provincial and federal government civil lawyer with experience in inner-city clients brings a unique perspective. I provide the following valuable insights:
Brand Strategy Insight
We provide assistance in brand clearance, risk-adverse tips, identifying class, identifying global filings, wasting less through downstream issues in the future.
Legal Interpretation, Compliance
Our team ensures you are compliant with legal standards considering the continuously changing IP legal IP laws in India, compliance with WIPO's Madrid Protocol and the global best practice guidelines.Enforcement sympathizer during enforcement, litigation
FAQs
How long does trademark protection last?
In India, ten years' registration can last indefinitely as long as you continue to use the mark.
What is trademark infringement?
Infringement is when another person uses a mark that is identical or confusingly similar to your mark, in connection with related goods/services. This can trigger enforcement action you will take against the infringer.
Is international protection essential?
If you are thinking about expanding intother countries outside of India, filing your mark via the Madrid System, or by filing for national registrations will give you essential international trademark protection.
Ready to Protect Your Brand?
With a successful history of trademark protection, Vrin Legal is your legal partner in India and beyond. Our approach is comprehensive: you can work with us with the trust of three key areas of trademark law: clarity, strategy, and enforcement, so that your brand can work for you, knowing you solved the legal issues never to be bothered by them again.
Contact our experienced intellectual property lawyers today for your free consultation and strategy session. Let’s get you to a point where you think of your brand as a protected, respected, and you have made it an enduring asset.