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Trademark Registration India » Trademark Search
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Trademark Search |
A trademark applicant is not needed to conduct a search for conflicting marks before using a trademark, or applying to register a trademark. To avoid liability from trademark infringement lawsuits by doing a trademark search is the most important reason for any businessman. To identify potential prior users is the second most important reason, therefore you will not have to incur the time and expense associated with changing a name you have invested money and time in at a later date.
Before submitting an application for registering your trademark in India, you should conduct a trademark search to ensure that trademark has already registered or not. This is to make sure that the trademark you intend to use is not already registered by another company for similar or identical products. This is advisable to conduct a trademark search not only in your own country, but also, as far as is possible, in other countries, in order to avoid problems of infringement at a later stage.
A free trademark search may be conducted before Trademark Office and a commercially operated trademark database. It may be difficult to ensure that your trademark of choice is not 'confusingly similar' to existing validly registered trademarks.
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