Filing and examination
Direct Indian applications and India designations arising from international registrations. The instruction becomes a docketed matter on arrival: class and specification data extracted, requirements checked, fees returned, and the examination timeline established from the moment the application is filed.
Prosecution, hearings and oppositions
Examination reports, show cause hearings, oppositions and counter-statements each create an event on the docket with its own deterministic deadline and its own reminder workflow. Our trademark professionals handle registrability, specification judgement, response strategy and advocacy.
- 01
Examination report responses
- 02
Show cause and registry hearings
- 03
Opposition and counter-statement
- 04
Evidence stages
- 05
Rectification and cancellation
- 06
Assignments and licence recordals
Renewals and portfolio management
Renewal dates, recordals, ownership changes and mark-family groupings are held on the same record as prosecution. Portfolio taxonomy from your playbook — mark families, business units, cost centres — is applied consistently so reporting comes out in your structure, not ours.
- Renewals and restoration windows
- Assignment and merger recordals
- Change of name and address
- Licence and user recordals
- Mark family and portfolio taxonomy
How a trademark matter runs
The mark, the applicant and the specification are checked before anything is filed, and the examination timeline is established the moment it is.
- Instruction
- Docket opened
- Mark and class data
- Requirements checked
- Fees returned
- You authorise
- Professional review
- Filed
- Examination window
- Report and invoice
- Ongoing monitoring
Portfolio transfers
An existing Indian portfolio can be moved across without waiting for a new filing. We review the existing matters, reconstruct and reconcile the docket, identify upcoming deadlines, review prosecution history, capture outstanding actions and record your client-specific instructions — then bring every matter into the same continuously monitored system used for new work. Transfer the portfolio once; stop rebuilding its history every time something happens.
Defined work. Defined fees.
A standard filing is not an unknowable event, and neither is much of recurring prosecution. For defined work you should know what is included, what it costs, what the official fee is, what information is required and what happens next — before the work begins. For larger portfolios and foreign associate relationships we can establish standing fee schedules and agreed workflows. One matter or one hundred: the more structured the relationship, the less each instruction has to start from zero.