Pharmaceutical trademarks – how to know if a drug name is available or not?
Small Pharma Companies: How to know if a drug name is available or not? Pharma industry contributes more than any other sectors to the trademark industry by filing number of applications for trademark registration. This is apparently backed up by the recent Annual Report 2012-2013 published by The Controller General of Patents, Designs and Trade Marks (CGPDTM). Trademarked vs Non-trademarked names Trademark is not necessarily a subject matter of first-to-file basis unlike patent applications. Trademark can be aptly defined as a “mark” used in trade to distinguish one’s goods from others. It makes more sense as to who adopts the marks early and how well the adopted mark is exploited in trade. This is typically the case in most of the oppositions....