<p>The facility, to be extended by the Controller General of Patents, Designs and Trademarks, is likely to be available in the next few weeks, a top official said at a CII meet here today.<br />As of now, a person has to pay Rs 500 to search whether the trademark of his choice is available. He also has to physically go the Trademark Registry Office.<br /><br />The move will also save entrepreneurs from touts who promise trademarks, which are already booked, Controller General of Patents, Designs and Trademarks P H Kurian said.<br />About 85,000 applications for registration of trademarks have already been filed in the first six months of the current fiscal. In 2009-10, about 1.41 lakh applications were filed.<br />The Trademarks Registry is in Mumbai and its branches are located in Kolkata, Chennai, Ahmedabad and New Delhi.<br /><br />Kurian further said that his department was working on developing a refined search engine for the Indian patents.The government has received about 20,000 applications for grant of patents in the first half of 2010-11 and the number is likely to cross 40,000 this fiscal, he said. The patent office had received about 35,000 applications last year</p>
<p>The facility, to be extended by the Controller General of Patents, Designs and Trademarks, is likely to be available in the next few weeks, a top official said at a CII meet here today.<br />As of now, a person has to pay Rs 500 to search whether the trademark of his choice is available. He also has to physically go the Trademark Registry Office.<br /><br />The move will also save entrepreneurs from touts who promise trademarks, which are already booked, Controller General of Patents, Designs and Trademarks P H Kurian said.<br />About 85,000 applications for registration of trademarks have already been filed in the first six months of the current fiscal. In 2009-10, about 1.41 lakh applications were filed.<br />The Trademarks Registry is in Mumbai and its branches are located in Kolkata, Chennai, Ahmedabad and New Delhi.<br /><br />Kurian further said that his department was working on developing a refined search engine for the Indian patents.The government has received about 20,000 applications for grant of patents in the first half of 2010-11 and the number is likely to cross 40,000 this fiscal, he said. The patent office had received about 35,000 applications last year</p>