If Trademark Opposition is not filed within stipulated time of 90 days with valid and proper grounds of opposition the applied Trademark by other party gets registered and there may be loss of goodwill of the existing and earlier user of the similar Trademark.

Any interested party or any third-party having interest in the accepted and advertised Trademark application may file Trademark opposition proceedings. Trademark Opposition is required to be filed if you have any objection to any applied Trademark. The Opposition might be on Similarity issues viz. visual similarity, phonetic similarity or audio-visual similarity with the applied Trademark. Deceptive similarity is also a ground of Opposition. Difference in spelling of any kind of differences which are capable of relating the applied trademark with your trademark comes under the ambit of deceptive similarity.

An earlier user of the Trademark similar to the applied Trademark or any third party can file Trademark Opposition.

The registration of an accepted and advertised Trademark application may be stopped by filing of Trademark opposition proceedings.

For better chances of success of Trademark opposition proceedings, you must hire an expert generally a Trademark Lawyer who is skilled and has experience in Trademark opposition proceedings. You need to authorize the Trademark Lawyer / Trademark attorney to file Trademark opposition proceeding on your behalf.

Expertise Required:- Trademark Opposition is required to be filed if you have any objection to any applied trademark and therefore expertise is required to file trademark opposition and stop others to get their trademark registered similar to your Trademark and earn the profits of your goodwill. Uncertainty:- It is not sure that after filing the trademark Opposition the applied trademark application shall be rejected as a solid ground of opposition is required and the applied trademark application is rejected only upon merits. After filing of Trademark Opposition the Trademark Examiner requires a counter statement to be filed by the applicant of the trademark application and decides on merits of the application and opposition.

Registered trademark owners are required to regularly check applications advertised in Trademark Journal for the similarity with their owned trademarks in lack of which others may take benefit of registration of a similar trademark and earn the profits of your goodwill. At Businessmitra we keep regular status check of advertisements in the Trademark journals of the filed applications and take actions accordingly on right time which saves your Trademark and Goodwill to be used by others.