A trademark registration is valid for exactly 10 years, and it does not renew itself. Miss the deadline, and your mark moves into a grace period with a surcharge attached. Miss that too, and it gets removed from the register altogether, open for someone else to claim.
Trademark renewal is a straightforward filing on Form TM-R, but the fee jumps sharply the longer you wait. LegalDev tracks your renewal date, prepares the filing, and gets it submitted before the surcharge window opens.
Every registered trademark in India carries a 10-year validity period, counted from the date the original application was filed, not the date the certificate was issued. Renewal is the process of extending that protection for another 10 years by filing Form TM-R with the Registrar of Trade Marks, along with the prescribed government fee, before the existing term runs out.
There is no cap on how many times a trademark can be renewed. As long as the owner keeps filing on time every 10 years, protection continues indefinitely. The moment a renewal is missed and the grace period lapses, that continuity breaks, and the process to get the mark back becomes more expensive and less certain.
You can file Form TM-R as early as one year before the expiry date, and there is no reason to wait until the last month. Filing early means no surcharge, no restoration risk, and no scrambling if a document needs correcting.
To find your renewal date, check the filing date on your original registration certificate (not the date the certificate itself was issued) and add 10 years to it. If you are not sure when your mark is due, the IP India public search portal will show the current status and expiry date against your application number.
These fees are charged per class. A trademark registered under three classes costs three times the applicable rate to renew, whether filed on time, late, or as a restoration. This is the single biggest reason to renew early: a delay on a multi-class mark can turn a routine filing into a bill several times larger than it needed to be.
Beyond a year from removal, restoration generally is not possible, and the mark would need to go through fresh registration from scratch, competing against any conflicting marks that may have been filed in the meantime.
The document list for renewal is lighter than for a fresh application, since the Registry already has your full filing history on record.
If the renewal window has already passed, the same Form TM-R covers late renewal with the surcharge, and restoration, so there is no separate form to track for each scenario.
Renewal deadlines are easy to lose track of, especially for businesses managing several trademarks across different classes. We track your expiry dates, prepare Form TM-R with the correct details, and file it well before the deadline so you never end up paying a surcharge for something entirely avoidable.
If your trademark has already lapsed, we assess whether it still falls within the restoration window and handle that filing as well, along with any explanation the Registrar requires. If you haven't registered a trademark yet, start with our Trademark Registration for MSME or Trademark Registration for Companies guides instead.
Registration establishes exclusive legal rights over a mark for the first time. Renewal simply extends those same rights for another 10-year term once the initial period is about to end; it does not create any new rights.
No. Registration is valid for 10 years from the filing date. To keep the protection active, the owner must file for renewal before that period ends, and this needs to be repeated every 10 years. There is no limit on the number of times a mark can be renewed.
You get a 6-month grace period to renew with a surcharge. If that also passes, the mark is removed from the register. It can potentially be restored within a year of removal, but restoration involves extra fees and is not guaranteed.
Yes. The entire process is done through the IP India e-filing portal using Form TM-R, which covers on-time renewal, late renewal with surcharge, and restoration in a single form.
Up to one year before the expiry date. Filing early avoids any surcharge and gives enough time to fix documentation issues if the Registry raises any query.
Form TM-R. The older forms, TM-12 and TM-13, were retired under the Trade Marks Rules, 2017, and are no longer in use.
Don't let a missed date turn a routine renewal into a costly restoration. Get in touch with LegalDev for a free consultation, we'll check your trademark's expiry status and file the renewal before it becomes a problem.