The Companies Rules, 2014, in relation to Appointment and Qualification of Directors, was amended to this effect, and came into force on July 10, 2018.
Like all rules, even the Trademarks Act has an exception – When there is more than one registered owner, neither of them can claim exclusivity over the use of the mark.
If you have a small personal blog and don’t have any big plans to expand it further, then you wouldn’t have to go all out and secure the intellectual properties of your blog.
'Assignment of Trademark’ means that the ownership (as agreed upon in the transfer agreement) of the mark is transferred absolutely from one person to the other.
It’s a distinctive sign that represents an ‘individual’ or a ‘brand’ or an ‘organisation’, and is applied to commodities or articles of trade to identify and distinguish the products and services of one from another.
It qualifies as a metadata tag and helps the user create, identify, follow and contribute to a particular conversation on social networking sites and across other internet applications.