Request to Divide a Trade Mark Application (Form TM-53) (India)
Updated 7 July 2026
This form is used to request the division of a trademark application in India. It allows an applicant to split a single application covering multiple classes of goods or services into separate applications.
FORM TM-53
THE TRADE MARKS ACT, 1999
Agents Code No:
Proprietor's Code No:
Fee: Rs.1,000 as Divisional fee plus appropriate class fee. See entry NO.68 of the first schedule.
On a request for the division of an application or of a single application for different classes of goods or services.
Proviso to Section 22 rule 104(1)
(to be filed in triplicate accompanied by three additional representation of the mark)
In the matter of Trade Mark NO...in Class... in the name of ... Made on ...
I (or we)¹ ...hereby request the Registrar to divide application NO... in class... in the following class or classes² and/ or to divide the specification of goods or services as indicated below:
...
...
A copy of the Registrar order on the request may be sent to the following address in India :-
Dated this ...day of ...
SIGNATURE
NAME OF SIGNATORY IN LETTERS
To
The Registrar of Trade Marks
The Office of the Trade Marks Registry at³
Insert the full name, address and nationality of the applicant
Mention the goods or services and the class or classes in which it is to be registered in ascending numerical order
State the name of the place of the appropriate office of the Trade Marks Registry
(See rule 4)
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