India trademark search
How to search and register a trademark in India, from official sources. Signa does not sync the CGPDTM register yet. It holds WIPO Madrid designations that cover India.
Search the CGPDTM register
Trade Mark Public Search is Trade Marks Registry, Office of the Controller General of Patents, Designs and Trade Marks's own search tool.
- Search by
- word mark, phonetic, device mark (Vienna code), Nice class, goods and services description
- Languages
- English
- Free
- Yes
- Account required
- Yes
- Limits
- Login by one-time password is required before searching, a class must be entered for every search, and phonetic searches can take a long time.
How to search
- Open the Trade Mark Public Search and log in with a one-time password sent to an email address or Indian mobile number, after answering the captcha.
- Choose a category: Wordmark, Device Mark or Phonetic.
- Enter the keyword and choose Starts With or Contains; combine criteria with AND or OR.
- Enter the class (1 to 45), which is compulsory, and click Start Search.
- Click a record in the left results panel to see its details in the right panel.
Register a trademark in India
What CGPDTM requires, as the official sources below state it.
- How to file
- National application at the Trade Marks Registry (Form TM-A); Madrid designation
- Filing languages
- English, Hindi
- Several classes in one application
- Yes
- Classification
- Nice Classification
- Application fee
- INR 4,500 per class per mark (e-filing) or INR 5,000 (physical filing) where the applicant is an individual, startup or small enterprise; INR 9,000 (e-filing) or INR 10,000 (physical filing) per class per mark in all other cases (Form TM-A)
- Renewal fee
- INR 9,000 per class (e-filing) or INR 10,000 (physical filing) (Form TM-R)
- Fees as of
- 2026-11-12 (INR)
- Opposition
- 4 months from the date of publication of the Trade Marks Journal in which the application was advertised (pre-registration)
- Term
- 10 years from the filing date, renewable for 10 years at a time
- Non-use
- Open to cancellation after 5 years without use
Good to know
- Under rule 17 of the Trade Marks Rules, 2017, every applicant or opponent must give the Registrar an address for service in India, made up of a postal address in India and a valid email address.
- Under section 47 of the Trade Marks Act, 1999, a mark can be removed for non-use when, up to three months before the removal application, a continuous period of five years or longer from its entry on the register has passed without bona fide use.
- Applications can be filed on a proposed-to-be-used basis or on prior use; a claim of prior use needs a user affidavit and supporting documents.
Madrid Protocol and regional systems
India is a member of the Madrid Protocol since 2013-07-08, so an international registration filed through WIPO can designate it.
What Signa holds for India
IP India records are not covered by Signa yet. International registrations designating India are searchable through WIPO Madrid data.
Get this data via the API
Query the WIPO records that cover India in the same format as every other office.
GET/v1/trademarks?jurisdictions=INSearch the trademarks Signa holds that cover India
curl "https://api.signa.so/v1/trademarks?jurisdictions=IN" \
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Where these facts come from
Checked 2026-11-12.
- ipindia.gov.in
- ipindia.gov.in/page-content/about-trade-marks-registry
- tmrsearch.ipindia.gov.in/tmrpublicsearch
- tmrsearch.ipindia.gov.in/tmrpublicsearch/docs/Guidelines_to_use_Trade_Mark_Public_Search.pdf
- ipindia.gov.in/storage/uploads/docs-operator/f558da2b-ff4f-46bb-9f26-80d7ff16eba9.pdf
- ipindia.gov.in/pages/trade-marks/learn/forms-and-official-fees
- ipindia.gov.in/page-content/basics-of-trademarks
- ipindia.gov.in/storage/uploads/docs-operator/c9e8a57e-bc94-4b93-8518-6e8729c976bf.pdf
- wipo.int/wipolex/en/treaties/ShowResults