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Licensing
Licence User Agreement
We provide service in licensing of your Intellectual Property Rights (Exclusive, Non-exclusive, sole). License Agreements of your Intellectual Property Rights must be made in writing and recorded with the Intellectual Property Office for its validity and enforcement.
Trade Mark
A Trademark License User Agreement can be executed between the owner of the trade mark (licensor) who has usually gained a reputation in connection with the use of the Trade or service Mark with another Entrepreneur (Licensee) who is naturally interested in maintaining the quality and other standards in relation to use of the trade mark or service mark.
  1. The licensor has the right to exercise control over the quality of the products manufactured & marketed under the trademark license.
  2. The owner also has the means to review the manner in which the trademark is being used by the licensee.
  3. Further, the registered licensor has the right to maintain the continuing distinctiveness of the trademark.

The licensing of Trade Mark is protected under common law license. The Trade Mark licensing can be done even without informing the Trade Mark Registrar.
Registration as registered user
The Licenses that are recorded by the Trade mark Registry are called Registered Users. The registered proprietor and the proposed register user should jointly apply in writing to the registrar in the form TM-28, under section 49 and rule 80 of the Trade Marks Act, 1999 for filing for registration of registered user. The application has to be accompanied by an affidavit made by the registered proprietor and agreement in writing between the registered proprietor and the proposed register user.
Patent
A patent owner has the right to use, sale, transfer, license, mortgage and pledge the patent.
A Patent License Agreement can be executed between the Patentee and any other person interested in the title of the Patent.
  1. A Patent License Agreement shall not be valid unless the same were in writing and the agreement in the form of a document embodying all the terms and conditions governing their rights and obligations and duly executed. (under rule 68)
  2. The Licensee shall apply in FORM-16 under Patents Rules 69 to the Controller for the registration of his title in the Register within 6 months of the date of Agreement
  3. The document registered will be effective from the date of its execution and not from the date of registration.
  4. The terms of license shall be kept confidential by the controller, if requested by the patentee or licensee. Under Rule 69 (4).

Copy Right
The owner of the copyright (in any existing work or any future work) may grant any interest in the right by licence in writing signed by him or by his duly authorised agent under Section 30 of Copy right Act, 1957.
  1. In the case of a licence relating to copyright in any future work, the license shall take effect only when the work comes into existence.
  2. In case the person dies before the work comes into existence, his legal representative shall, in the absence of any provision to the contrary in the licence, be entitled to the benefit of the licence.

Design
The Person registered as a proprietor of the Design has power to grant licenses subject to the provisions of the Section 30(4) of the Designs Act, 2000.
  1. A Design License Agreement shall not be valid unless the same were in writing and the agreement in the form of a document embodying all the terms and conditions governing their rights and obligations and duly executed under section 30 (3) of the Designs Act, 2000.
  2. The Licensee of the Design should make an Application in FORM-12 to register his title with proof under Section 30 (2) of the Designs Act, 2000.
Geographical Indications
An application to the Registrar for the registration under Section 17 by a producer as an authorised user of the registered geographical indication shall be made jointly by the registered proprietor and the proposed authorised user in Form GI-3 and shall be accompanied by a Statement of Case of how he claims to be the producer of the registered geographical indication along with an Affidavit under Rule 56.

The entry of an authorised user in the register shall be made after the advertisement in the GI journal.
The Registrar shall enter the authorised user in Part B of the register on receipt of a request for issuance of the registration certificate in Form GI-3 together with the prescribed fee.