Shielding Your IP Value

A Trade Mark is a Brand Name. A Trade Mark or Service Mark includes any word, name, symbol, device, or any combination, used or intended to be used to identify and distinguish the goods/services of one seller or provider from those of others, and to indicate the source of the goods/services.

Copyright provides the protection to the authors of “original works of authorship,” including Literary, Dramatic, Musical, Artistic, and certain other Intellectual Works. This protection is available to both published and unpublished works. The Copyright Act generally gives the owner of copyright the exclusive right to reap benefits out of it and to authorize others to utilize. It is illegal for anyone to violate any of the rights provided by the law to the Copyright holder.

‘Design’ means only the features of shape, configuration, pattern or ornament or composition of lines or colour or combination thereof applied to any article whether two dimensional or three dimensional or in both forms, by any industrial process or means, whether manual, mechanical or chemical, separate or combined, which in the finished article appeal to and are judged solely by the eye, but does not include any mode or principle or construction or anything which is in substance a mere mechanical device, and does not include any trade mark, as define in clause (v) of sub-section of Section 2 of the Trade and Merchandise Marks Act, 1958, property mark or artistic works as defined under Section 2(c) of the Copyright Act, 1957.

A Patent is an Intellectual Property Right granted by the Government of India to an inventor to exclude others from making, using, offering for sale, or selling the invention throughout India when the patent is granted.

There are three types of Patents:

1. UTILITY PATENTS, may be granted to anyone who invents or discovers any new and useful process, machine, article of manufacture, or composition of matter, or any new and useful improvement thereof.
2. DESIGN PATENTS, may be granted to anyone who invents a new, original, and ornamental Design for an Article of manufacture.
3. PLANT PATENTS, may be granted to anyone who invents or discovers and asexually reproduces any distinct and new variety of plant.

Geographical Indications of goods are defined as that aspect of industrial property which refers to a country or to a place situated therein as being the country or place of origin of that product. Typically, such a name conveys an assurance of quality and distinctiveness which is essentially attributable to the fact of its origin in that defined geographical locality, region or country. Under Articles 1 (2) and 10 of the Paris Convention for the Protection of Industrial Property, geographical indications are covered as an element of IPR.

If you are an existing client of NSL and wish to enjoy our new web based Intellectual Property Toolkit, which has been designed to be completely customizable, robust, flexible and tailor-made to cater to your specific needs at anytime and anywhere. you can do so just by signing up through our User Registration.

You’ll soon receive an email from our IT team with your login credentials.

Some of the key features of our Toolkit includes:

1. 24/7 at-a-glance status check of your trademark, copyright, patent and design portfolio;
2. IP Portfolio can be managed anytime and anywhere via tablets and mobiles;
3. View opposition status/summary of your entire IP portfolio;
4. Exhaustive compliance alert system — Get reminders about pending & upcoming statutory compliances such as renewal, reply to examination report, reply to opposition, etc;
5. Similar IP notifications and alerts — Get notified about new oppositions, cancellation/rectifications alerts, etc;
6. Get customized search by word, class, proprietor name, phonetic similarity, etc;
7. Generate quick, comprehensive, easy-to-comprehend reports instantly in a variety of document formats.

Rest assured you'll have a great experience while using our new service offerings once you connect with our firm.