Office Of CGPDTM Withdraws Public Notices W.R.T Abandonment of Trademark Applications

Intellectual Property Attorney Association had moved a writ petition before Delhi High Order against the public notices dated 06/02/2023 which was issued by the Office of Controller General of Patents, Designs & Trade Marks.

These public notices were issued to dispose of the pending trademark applications wherein the applicant of the trademark had not filed the response to the examination report or counterstatement to opposition within the specified timeline. After the expiry of a timeline as specified in the 06/02/2023 public notice, the Office of Controller General of Patents Designs and Trademark treated several trademark applications as abandoned.

The Controller General of Patent Designs and Trademark vide its 27/03/23 notice had given the final opportunity to the Applicants to make submissions before the Grievance Cell of the Registrar of Trade Marks by 11/05/2023

The Intellectual Property Attorney Association moved the writ petition citing grievances on the abandoned status of several trademark applications. On 13/04/2023 this writ petition came up before the Court and the Office of Controller General of Patent Designs and Trademarks undertook to withdraw both public notices and submitted that all the applications will be reverted to their previous status, within a time of 10 days from the Court’s order and all the applications will move before the Trade Marks Registry. The writ petition stands disposed of in the aforesaid terms.

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