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Mai 18, 2016
Sonal Madan, Chadha & Chadha, Advocates, India

Trade Marks Registry walks the line!


Sonal Madan, Chadha & Chadha, Advocates, IndiaIn March, 2016, the Indian Ministry of Commerce & Industry informed the Upper House of Parliament that there were over 500,000 trade mark registration requests pending with the Trade Marks Registry until February 01, 2016. This pendency was primarily due to shortage of manpower. In order to address this problem, the Indian Government sanctioned 108 additional posts, which included those of Examiners of Trademarks (TM) & Geographical Indications (GI) as well as Senior Examiners. While everyone was waiting for the Trade Marks Registry to  read more