Trademark Registration - India Practice and Trends
3 August 2026 10 min read Practical guide India filed 552,190 trade mark applications in the last reported year and registered 382,834 — a thirty-seven per cent jump on the year before, driven by a backlog clearance drive rather than by any loosening of standards. Getting a mark through is not difficult. Losing one is easy, and it usually happens for the same handful of reasons: a descriptive name chosen because it markets well, a missed one-month deadline, a renewal that nobody diarised, or an assignment nobody recorded. In short Eight to fourteen months for a smooth unopposed application; three to five years or more if it is opposed. The reply to the examination report is due in one month , and missing it means the application is treated as abandoned. This is the most common way an application dies. The four-month opposition window is not extendible. Nor is the one-year outer limit for restoring a lapsed registration — after that the mark is gone and ...