Trademark Rights">Trademark Rights

Registration of trademark gives exclusive right to the proprietor of the trademark to use the goods or services in respect of which the trader is registered. If two persons are registered owners of marks which are similar with or nearly resembles each other, the right to use the same shall not be acquired by any one of those persons merely by registration of trademarks but both shall have the same right to use it as if they were the sole registered party. However the law does not allow any person to use a trademark of other person as his own. There are basically four modes of acquiring a protectable right in trademark. These are by user, by registration, by permission or license, and by assignment.