SN

Type / nature of office action

Average time for disposal

(working days)

1

Issuance of Acknowledgement Receipt on filing application. This includes following steps:

• Reception of documents in the Systems
• Reception of Fee instruments and verification
• Data Entry

Fifteen days

2

Issuance of 1^st Examination Report on application.

This includes following steps:

• Classification
• Allocation to the section/ officer
• Formal examination
• Similarity search
• Reporting

Four months

3

Action on reply received from the applicant

Three months

4

Acceptance and subsequent publication on compliance of all legal/codal requirements. This includes following steps:

• Processing of reply / amendment
• Data entry
• Publication in TM e-Journal 

Two months

5

Process time to decide an Opposition proceedings

It depends on case to case basis

6

Registration of Trade mark – where no opposition received. It includes following steps:

Acceptance, publication, opposition time (02 months) and issuance of demand notice.

Six months

7

Issuance of Registration Certificate of trademark after publication from reception of Fee for Demand Notice

Three months

8

Trademark Search Report from request on form TM-55

Fifteen days

9

Miscellaneous requests where hearing is NOT required e.g.; 

• Request for issuance of certified copy
• Request for change of name, address, etc.
• Request for duplicate certificate
• Request for assignment / licence etc.

one months

10

Process time to decide invalidation / cancellation Proceedings

It depends on case to case basis