New Delhi, December 04: A person seeking global trade mark need not apply for it in several countries incurring big cost, once India’s trade mark law is amended.
The government introduced today in the Lok Sabha the Trade Marks (Amendment) Bill for simplifying the trade marks registration procedure.
At present, anyone seeking registration of a trade mark in different countries, has to make separate applications in different languages and also pay different fees.
The present Act has no provision for facilitating Indian nationals as well as foreign nationals to secure simultaneous protection of their trade marks in other countries.
The Madrid Protocol, which is a simple and cost-effective system for international registration of trade marks, enables nationals of its member countries to obtain trade marks registration within 18 months by filing a single application with one fee and one language in their country of origin.
–PTI