Reliance Industries Ltd (RIL), along with a few others, applied for a trademark for ‘Operation Sindoor’, the codename for India’s strike on terrorist bases in Pakistan and Pakistan-occupied Kashmir. Reliance Industries withdrew the application later.
Jio Studios, a Reliance Industries unit, later in a statement clarified the trademark application had been filed inadvertently by a junior person without authorisation and asserted that they have no intention of trademarking Operation Sindoor.
Apart from Reliance Industries, several others applied for a trademark for Operation Sindoor. Here’s a list of entities filed for a trademark for Operation Sindoor –
The second application was filed on May 7 by Mukesh Chetram Agrawal, who applied for registration of the wordmark, as well as the image, under Class 41.
- Retd. Group Captain Kamal Singh Oberh
Retired Group Captain and Air Force Officer Kamal Singh Oberh applied a trademark for “Operation Sindoor” as a whole word. The trademark would be used for “entertainment, film production, cultural activities, web series production,” his application stated.
Another application was filed by Alok Kumar Kothari, a Delhi-based advocate. He intended to use the wordmark for “education, providing of training, entertainment, sporting and cultural activities.”
Mumbai-based Prabhleen Sandhu, producer of Almighty Motion Pictures, applied for a wordmark for ‘Operation Sindoor’ on May 7, mainly for entertainment purposes.
On May 8, the day after Operation Sindoor, two more applications for the trademark were filed. One of them was filed by Jayaraj T, who sought trademark registration for the word ‘Operation Sindoor – Sinddora Yuddham.’ According to the application, he has sought a trademark for “education, providing of training, entertainment, sporting and cultural activities.”
Another application was filed on May 8 by Uttam Jaju, an ad filmmaker from Surat, according to the Indian Express. Jaju requested registration under Class 41 to use the wordmark ‘Operation Sindoor’ for entertainment purposes, along with a trademark use for arranging “award ceremonies and gala evenings” for entertainment purposes and major corporations and individuals “who have made significant charitable contributions”.
Class 41 trademark
All the applications, including the one filed by Reliance Industries, were under Class 41 trademark, which gives the rights to exclusively use the word-type trademark. According to the goods and services description in the application, Reliance proposed to use it for entertainment purposes, including production, presentation, and distribution of audio, video, or still and moving images and data containing the trademark.
The trademark holder would be permitted to use it in publishing services such as electronic publishing services, presentation of shows, competitions, games, concerts, exhibitions, and related events.
