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ARTICLE · 21 APRIL 2017

Analysis Of New Indian Trademark Rules 2017

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The recent amendment in the Indian Trademarks Rules, 2017 was in discussion for the long time and the changes were long overdue.

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Himanshu Sharma
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The recent amendment in the Indian Trademarks Rules, 2017 was in discussion for the long time and the changes were long overdue. The new Rules have made the procedure for the prosecution of the Trademark in India a little bit less confusing. There is a special focus in the Rules to make Indian Trademark Office, a paperless Office. Further there is also focus on making the process for registration of trademark less time consuming and transparent by giving special privilege to the Applicants for online filing of the trademark and more reasoned redressal of prosecution of trademark. The major changes in the Trademark Rules are discussed below:

1. Reduction in Number of Forms: In the Trademark Rules, 2002 there were 75 different forms for the various procedures relating to the trademark registration and prosecution. It includes different types of trademark application, application for the post-registration procedures etc. In the Trademark Rules 2017, the numbers of

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