Every Indian trademark status the API returns, from New Application to Registered, what each one means, and how to filter trademark search by status.
Every trademark has a status: the Trade Marks Registry's one-line state of the application, exactly as IP India shows it. Get Trademark Details returns it, and Search Indian Trademarks filters on it with statuses, a comma-separated list of the values below:
Use the values exactly as written, including capitals and punctuation. For what each status means for the applicant, the deadlines it starts and how many marks are in it, see Trademark Status in India: Every Status Explained.
Filing
Status
Meaning
New Application
Received and entered on the register.
Send To Vienna Codification
The logo is being coded under the Vienna Classification of figurative elements.
Formalities Chk Pass
Passed the check of fee, form and applicant details; waiting for an examiner.
Formalities Chk Fail
Something in the application is incomplete; the applicant has to fix it.
INVALID (No fee received)
Not completed because the filing fee wasn't received.
Examination
Status
Meaning
Ready for Examination
In the queue for an examiner.
Marked for Exam
Assigned to an examiner.
Under Examination
An examiner is checking the mark and searching for earlier similar marks.
Objected
The examination report raises objections; the applicant must reply within one month.
Exam Report Issued
An examination report needs a reply (an older form of Objected).
Set for Hearing
A show cause hearing has been fixed.
Acceptance and advertisement
Status
Meaning
Accepted
Accepted; waiting to be published in the Trade Marks Journal.
Advertised bef acc
Published in the journal before acceptance.
Accepted & Advertised
Published in the journal; open to opposition for four months.
Send to Re-Advertised, Accepted/Readvertise, ABA/Readvertised
To be, or already, published again; a new opposition window opens.
Opposition
Status
Meaning
Opposed, Opposed*
An opposition has been filed; the applicant must file a counter statement within two months.
Registered
Status
Meaning
Registered
On the register, valid for ten years from filing and renewable.
Rectification Filed
Someone has applied to cancel or change the registration.
Removed
Removed from the register, usually for non-renewal.
Cancelled
The registration has been cancelled.
Ended without registration
Status
Meaning
Abandoned, Deemed to be Abandoned
Ended because a required step wasn't taken in time.
Refused
The Registrar refused registration.
Withdrawn
The applicant withdrew the application.
Application Invalidated
The application has been invalidated.
International registrations (Madrid Protocol)
Status
Meaning
Protection Granted
An international registration designating India is protected here.
Provisional Refusal Confirmed, Protection Refused
India has refused protection.
IR Cancelled
The international registration itself has been cancelled.
Rare statuses
A few statuses appear on fewer than a thousand marks each, such as Under Division, Send Back to EDP, Gone to court, Review, Appeal, Stay of Registration, Opposition Withdrawn and Opposition Dismissed. For a mark in one of them, its latest documents in Get Trademark Details say what happened.
Status and alert
Next to status, a mark may have an alert: a note the Registry shows on the mark's page about what's pending, such as Awaiting Reply to Examination Report, Ready for Show cause Hearing or Request for amendment is Pending for processing. Read both: the status says where the application stands, the alert says what's waiting. Search filters on it with alerts.
