INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF PROFESSIONAL STUDIES

For performing commercial and business activity in the modern world the traders and the businessman are required to associate their commercial activity with some marks, symbols or other things in order to get recognition and identification for their business activities. These marks and symbols which help in the identification of the product or business are popularly known as “trade marks” . The word trade mark is made of two words, trade and mark. In order to understand and appreciate the idea of trade mark we have to understand the meaning of the words. A mark includes words, letter, or symbols, or any combination of these elements for the purpose of identification of business or trade and services of a particular commercial activity to which such marks belongs. Further, with the development in science and technology, sounds and 3d images also able to get their recognition as a trade mark. So in other words marks that allow a person to distinguish the product and services of one person from another are called trade-marks.

Keywords: trademarks; intellectual property rights; trade mark law