Driving along the Bahut Rulaya Tumne* (aka BRT) Corridor in Delhi the other day, I spotted this taxi nudging me into the next lane. The photograph is admittedly grainy, and may not clear up even with adjustable spectacles, (it’s just a bad photo, blame it on the mobile phone that took it). For those who can’t read it (and neither can I, so I recall from memory), the metal logo of the Sikh Khanda symbol has the characters “TM” as a superscript, and “Since 1699” as a tagline below, the allusion being fairly obvious.
Several hours of chortling after, a (serious) question emerged: what is the oldest claimed date of first use in the Indian Trademark Registry? One of the oldest living markets in Delhi — Chandni Chowk — for example, dates to the 1650s, and there are extant businesses there that trace their origins to a couple of centuries at least…
As a related question, I know the Register itself goes back a fairly long way, but am curious to know when the first Register was issued.
I am really looking forward to comments on this one! Those who have likely answers may want to link to the Register, to sate the curiosity.
*Bahut Rulaya Tumne translates from Hindi roughly as “You made us cry a lot”. It was a catchphrase used by the opposition party to refer to the incumbent party (and the one that eventually won) in the last elections in Delhi.
I think its trademark no. 10 for the mark BLACK and WHITE in the name of James Buchanan & Company UK which is still registered uptill 2016.
ya.. its correct..an UK buchanan &co filed a trademark in 1/6/1942.. it is valid upto 1/6/16..he regd black and white for his scotch whisky..