The ₹9,000 slab, and when you can halve it
Under the First Schedule to the Trade Marks Rules, 2017, e-filing of Form TM-A costs ₹4,500 per mark per class for an individual, startup or small enterprise, and ₹9,000 per class for everyone else.
A private limited company in Gurugram defaults to ₹9,000. But the reduced slab is available where the applicant holds a valid Udyam registration as a small enterprise, or DPIIT recognition as a startup - and a large number of Gurugram companies hold one or both without connecting them to the trademark filing.
The certificate has to be attached to Form TM-A at the time of filing. It cannot be claimed afterwards, and there is no refund. On a four-class filing that is the difference between ₹18,000 and ₹36,000 in government fees alone.
Group entities and who should own the mark
Group structures are common here: a holding company, an operating company, sometimes a separate IP entity, and often a foreign parent.
The applicant named on Form TM-A becomes the registered proprietor, and moving the mark afterwards means an assignment, a Form TM-P recordal and, where the transfer is without goodwill, a Section 42 advertisement. Deciding ownership before filing is materially cheaper than correcting it after.
Where a group entity other than the user will own the mark, the licence to the operating company should be documented at the same time, with a real quality control clause. See our pages on trademark assignment and trademark licensing.
Gurugram is in Haryana, and since February 2026 that changes where your filings go
Your trademark still goes to Delhi. A Gurugram applicant files at the New Delhi office of the Trade Marks Registry, whose territory covers Haryana along with Delhi, Punjab, Uttar Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Himachal Pradesh, Jammu and Kashmir and Chandigarh. India has five Registry locations: the Registry itself is at Mumbai, and its four branches are at Kolkata, Chennai, Ahmedabad and New Delhi. Jurisdiction follows the applicant's principal place of business in India, or the address for service where there is none, so a Gurugram address puts you on the New Delhi register alongside a Connaught Place applicant.
Your company filings left Delhi. Until the reorganisation, a single ROC Delhi covered the NCT of Delhi and the State of Haryana. That is no longer true. Delhi was split into ROC Delhi-I and ROC Delhi-II, both covering Delhi districts only, and Haryana was given its own Registrar of Companies, headquartered at Chandigarh, with jurisdiction over the State of Haryana. The new offices became operational on 16 February 2026. So a Gurugram company's annual filings, charges and incorporations now go to ROC Haryana at Chandigarh, not to ROC Delhi.
There is no "ROC Gurugram". A competitor guide circulating in 2026 invents one, gives it twenty-two Haryana districts and dates the change to February 2025. All three of those are wrong: the notification places the Haryana Registrar at Chandigarh, and the offices became operational in February 2026. If a page tells you to file at a Gurugram Registrar, it is not reading the notification.
On the Regional Director we will not guess. Chandigarh is one of the ten Regional Director locations, and the new RD (NR-I) at New Delhi covers only the NCT of Delhi and Uttar Pradesh, so Haryana is not with the New Delhi Regional Director. Which office does cover Haryana we confirm before filing rather than naming one on a web page.
What Haryana costs a business around the filing
Shops and establishments, under a Punjab Act. Haryana has no Shops and Establishments Act of its own. Haryana was carved out of Punjab in 1966 and retains the Punjab Shops and Commercial Establishments Act, 1958, with the Rules of 1958, which the Haryana Labour Department lists among Haryana's labour laws on its own site at hrylabour.gov.in, with a shops registration module there. If you are reading a page that cites a "Haryana Shops and Establishments Act", that Act does not exist. It is registration, and we confirm the current fee with the Department before quoting it. Delhi's Shops and Establishments Act, 1954 does not apply to you.
Professional tax. We make no claim either way about professional tax in Haryana. A negative claim of that kind needs an official source, this firm removed an unsourced version of it from its own site, and nothing since has changed that. We confirm whether professional tax applies to you before we quote.
The municipal body. Gurugram's municipal body is the Municipal Corporation of Gurugram, and note the name: the city was officially renamed Gurugram, and the corporation's own site is mcg.gov.in, so "Gurgaon Municipal Corporation" is not its name. Whether MCG issues a trade licence, under what name and at what fee, we confirm with the Corporation for your premises. We will not name a municipal product we have not seen on the Corporation's own pages.
Stamp duty. Haryana stamp duty on the memorandum and articles we quote before you pay it. The only schedule available to us is an undated compilation whose Haryana figures are implausibly low for a current rate, which is precisely why we do not publish them.
What a Gurugram business usually files alongside
A private limited company defaults to the ₹9,000 fee slab, so check first whether the applicant holds a valid Udyam registration as a small enterprise or DPIIT startup recognition; a surprising number of Gurugram companies hold one and never connect it to the trademark. GST registration is a Haryana registration, not a Delhi one, however Delhi-facing your client list is.
How we work with you in Gurugram
Regikart has no Gurugram office, and our Delhi office is not one. Gurugram is in Haryana, which since February 2026 has its own Registrar of Companies at Chandigarh, its own labour law and its own municipal corporation, so presenting a Delhi address as a Gurugram presence would be misleading. Our offices are Kolkata, which is the head office, Delhi and Bengaluru, and Gurugram work is done remotely from one of those three. Documents come to us on WhatsApp or by email at +91 70444 94804 and [email protected].
Class strategy for B2B and SaaS
A B2B or SaaS business usually needs Class 42 for the technology itself, Class 9 where there is a downloadable product, and sometimes Class 35 for business services delivered through the platform. The judgement call is which of the three the business actually trades in, and that is a question about your contracts rather than your pitch deck.
Getting this wrong in either direction costs. Too narrow and a competitor occupies the class you actually trade in. Too wide and the specification attracts objections and oppositions you then pay to answer.