Brand Name Registration though not compulsory but helps in protection of Goodwill/Reputation of a business against any kind of duplicates or spurious products. It is very common for many companies supplying products mostly in rural areas to start producing and supplying spurious products, which may have different name but the same logo and color scheme of a famous products like butter, ghee, bread, biscuits, etc, in a bid to make quick profits.

The Brand Name registration, therefore, becomes necessary to protect against such duplicacy by registration of logo, color scheme, patterns, etc under various Intellectual Property Rights Law, or in some cases formation of LLP / company under respective law also gives recognition to a business name and helps in protection of the Brand Name of the business!

Design Registration India – The Designs Act, 2000 aims at protecting the designs which serve the purpose of visual appeal. The design can be some shape, configuration, pattern or ormentation or composition of lines or colors applied to an article in any form by an industrial process.

A design can be registrable only when it is new or original and not previously published in India. Even if the pattern already known but when applied to a new article, it is still registrable, i.e. new application of old designs, it is still registrable. Also combination of prevously registered designs are registrable, if it produces new visual appeal.

The author of a design can apply to the Controller for its registration in prescribed format along with four copies of represenatations accompanied with necessary fees, provided it is not published previously in any country and also is not contrary to public order and morality. If objected by the controller, the applicant shall proceed to remove the objections within one month. The applcant has also the right to appeal to Central Government, whose decision is final.

Patent Registration India – Patent is granted to protect an invention which is new, useful and non-obvious. It grants the inventor, exclusive right to use, manufacture and market it. Basically, patents are granted in the field of Medicines, Science and Technology. It has been held by the Supreme Court that the object of the patent law is to encourage \ scientific research, new technology and industrial progress [1979, 2 SCC 511].

For the Patent Registration, the specification is to be filed with Patent Office for registration of a Patent, which should contain the title, description, best method of performing invention, scope of the invention and the drawings, if any. It may be provisional or complete specification.

Copyright Registration India – Copyright is the right in original literary, music or artistic work, which an author can protect by its registration under Copyright Act, 1957. Though registration is not compulsory, copyrights subsist in the work without registration also. But there are certain advantages offered by the registration, that it is advisable that work should be copyrighted.

The basic requirement to procure copyright is that author should have bestowed upon the work sufficient judgement, skill and labour or capital. There is nothing to prevent a person to produce identical result provided it is arrived through independent process. That is, there is no copyright in an idea.

The Copyright is registered with Copyright Office located at New Delhi by applying in prescribed format and also the applicant is required to serve a notice to person interested in the subject matter. In case, no objection is received from any of the interested parties, the Registrar of Copyrights would enter the same in the Register of Copyrights.

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