Intellectual Property
Intellectual Property (IP) Certifications and Registrations
At Baldha Associates, we help businesses and individuals protect their innovative creations through comprehensive IP registrations in India and internationally.
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1. Trademark Registration (India and International)
- Description: Protects brand names, logos, slogans, and designs to ensure exclusive rights to use them in business.
- Compliance: Application with correct classes under the NICE classification Trademark search for uniqueness Documentation and evidence of usage (if applicable)
- Use: Branding of goods and services Business protection and legal enforcement
- Validity: 10 years from the date of application (renewable indefinitely every 10 years)
- Issuing Authority: Controller General of Patents, Designs, and Trademarks (CGPDTM), India World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) for International Registration (Madrid Protocol)
2. Copyright Registration
- Description: Protects original literary, musical, artistic, and software works, granting the owner exclusive rights to use and reproduce.
- Compliance: Filing detailed information of the work Submission of actual work or extracts
- Use: Protection against unauthorized reproduction and plagiarism
- Validity: Lifetime of the author + 60 years (varies based on work type)
- Issuing Authority: Copyright Office, Government of India
3. Patent Registration
- Description: Protects new inventions, providing exclusive rights to the inventor to manufacture, use, and sell the invention.
- Compliance: Filing Provisional or Complete Specification Novelty, Inventive Step, and Industrial Applicability checks Examination and Publication
- Use: Commercialization of innovative products and technologies
- Validity: 20 years from the filing date
- Issuing Authority: Indian Patent Office (IPO) International filings through PCT (Patent Cooperation Treaty)
4. Design Registration
- Description: Protects the unique visual design, shape, configuration, and surface pattern of an article.
- Compliance: Filing application with exact design representation Novelty and originality criteria
- Use: Protection for industrial products, packaging, textiles, jewelry, furniture, etc.
- Validity: 10 years (extendable by 5 years, total 15 years)
- Issuing Authority: Controller General of Patents, Designs, and Trademarks (CGPDTM), India
5. Geographical Indication (GI) Registration
- Description: Protects products originating from a specific location, possessing qualities or reputation due to that origin (e.g., Darjeeling Tea, Kutch Embroidery).
- Compliance: Documentation of historical and geographical linkage Group or association application
- Use: Promotion and legal protection for regional products
- Validity: 10 years (renewable indefinitely)
- Issuing Authority: Geographical Indications Registry, Chennai, India
6. Trade Secrets Protection
- Description: Protects confidential business information like formulas, processes, methods, or strategies that give a competitive edge.
- Compliance: Implementation of Non-Disclosure Agreements (NDAs) Internal control policies
- Use: Protection of sensitive business information without public disclosure
- Validity: Indefinite, as long as secrecy is maintained
- Issuing Authority: No formal registration; protection through contracts and legal frameworks
7. Licensing Agreements for Intellectual Property
- Description: Formal agreements that allow others to use IP rights (trademark, patent, copyright, or design) under specific terms and conditions.
- Compliance: Drafting customized license agreements Registration of license (if necessary, like Registered User under Trademark law)
- Use: Monetization and expansion of IP without transferring ownership
- Validity: Based on the agreement terms (fixed term or perpetual)
- Issuing Authority: Drafted and executed between the parties; optional recordal with IP Offices for certain IP types
Why Protect Your IP with Baldha Associates?
Expert guidance from filing to registration
Professional drafting of agreements and contracts
End-to-end IP protection and enforcement support
