A trademark hearing takes fifteen minutes and usually turns on one point. The most common reason applicants lose is not a bad argument — it is that nobody showed up. We appear on your behalf, by video conference, whichever Registry office your matter sits in and wherever in the world you are.
Pick the speed and depth that matches your need. Same quality, same CA team — only the timeline changes.
Timeline: Per hearing
Timeline: Per hearing
Timeline: Per hearing, through to order
Government fee — paid by you at actuals
There is no government fee for the hearing itself. An adjournment request on Form TM-M carries a ₹900 government fee, paid at actuals, and must be made at least three days before the hearing date.
Every price above is a professional fee, excluding GST and government charges. 50% on delivery.
All fees and charges listed are indicative only and do not constitute a binding offer. Final amounts may vary depending on the volume of work and the complexity involved.
The hearing link goes to the email on record. If your old agent’s address is still there, the notice arrives somewhere you will never see it. We update it as part of onboarding.
Anything you intend to rely on must be on the file before the hearing. Holding a document up to a camera does nothing.
A Section 9 hearing turns on distinctiveness and evidence of use. A Section 11 hearing is comparative — mark against mark, goods against goods, plus anything undermining the cited mark.
By video conference, at IST, so you do not have to be online at an impossible hour from California or Sydney.
Tell us your requirement, a CA will call you in 30 minutes.
If you fail to appear and no reply to the office objection was filed, the Registrar may treat the application as abandoned. If a reply was filed but nobody appears, the matter is decided on the record.
Hearings run by video conference as standard, but the link goes to the email on record and the timing is IST. This is the most common reason NRI applicants lose marks they were entitled to keep.
Under Rule 50 no party gets more than two adjournments, each of not more than 30 days, and the request must be made at least three days before the hearing.
An adjournment sought on the day of the hearing is not an adjournment. The Registry treats it as failure to appear, with everything that follows.
In an opposition, non-appearance by the opponent generally sinks the opposition. Non-appearance by the applicant generally sinks the application.
On the Complete plan we file written submissions afterwards, follow through to the Registrar’s order, and assess an appeal if the mark is refused.
