Getting started with TM Manager
Add your trademarks and oppositions, group them by client and tag, and let TM Manager keep them up to date with the Indian Trade Marks Registry.
TM Manager is trademark portfolio management for India. It keeps all your trademarks and oppositions in one place and follows them on the Trade Marks Registry (IP India) for you, so you see status changes, new documents, hearings and deadlines without checking each mark by hand.
It works for law firms and IP attorneys managing marks for many clients, and for businesses looking after their own brands.
Sign in at marksimpl.com. The app opens on your Dashboard.
Find your way around
The sidebar has four parts:
| Part | What you'll find |
|---|---|
| Workspace | Dashboard, My Portfolio (your marks and oppositions), Clients Manager, and the AI Assistant |
| Monitoring & Watch | Tasks (what to do and by when), All Updates (what changed), Journal Watch (similar marks in the journal) and Citations |
| Registry | TM Search to search all Indian trademarks, TM Status for any application, and the Explorer for trademarks, oppositions and journals |
| Integrations | MCA Search for company names |
At the bottom of the sidebar you can type any application number for a quick status check. Your credits and portfolio size are under your account menu → Usage Stats.
Step 1: Add your trademarks
- Open My Portfolio → Add to portfolio.
- Choose what you're adding:
- My Applications: trademarks you own, or manage for clients.
- Outbound Oppositions: oppositions you have filed against other marks.
- Paste the application or opposition numbers. You can copy them straight from Excel or a CSV, separate them with commas, or put one per line. TM Manager shows how many numbers it found and points out any that don't look right.
- Select Add.
TM Manager then pulls each mark from the Registry: its status, owner, goods and services, documents, oppositions and hearings. After that it keeps them up to date on its own.
Your plan sets how many marks your portfolio can hold. Usage Stats shows how many you've used.
Step 2: Group by client and tag
- Clients: add the clients you act for in Clients Manager. Then set a mark's client from the Client column in My Portfolio. You can filter your portfolio and All Updates by client. Handy for firms; businesses can use it for group companies or brands.
- Tags: your own labels, such as a product line, a matter type or a team. Add them from the Tags column, then filter My Portfolio, Tasks and Journal Watch by tag.
An empty Client or Tags cell shows "—". Point at the row to pick one.
What TM Manager tracks for you
| Where you see it | When |
|---|---|
| All Updates → Status Changes | the Registry changes a mark's status, for example from Objected to Accepted |
| All Updates → New Documents | a new document is on file: an examination report, a hearing notice, a reply, a certificate |
| Tasks | something needs a reply or has a deadline: an examination report, a hearing, a notice |
| Journal Watch | a new Trade Marks Journal has a mark similar to yours |
Marks filed in several classes
The Registry records a mark filed in more than one class as class 99. TM Manager reads the real classes from its goods and services and shows them alongside, for example 99 · 24, 25, 35.
Next
- New to trademarks? Read the guide for IP law firms or for businesses.
- Search the trademark register before filing a new mark or advising a client.
- Trademark monitoring and Journal Watch: what changed, and similar marks to oppose.
- Open any mark from a table to see its full details: status, dates, owner, attorney, classes, goods and services, documents and oppositions.
Updated about 5 hours ago