UPSC RECRUITMENT-2019 Eleven Assistant Registrar of Trade Marks and Geographical Indications, Office of the Controller General of Patents, Designs and Trade Marks, Department for Promotion of Industry and Internal Trade, Ministry of Commerce and Industry

 Eleven Assistant Registrar of Trade Marks and

Geographical Indications, Office of the Controller General of Patents,

Designs and Trade Marks, Department for Promotion of Industry and

Internal Trade, Ministry of Commerce and Industry (SC-01, ST-01, OBC-02,

EWS-01, UR-06). The posts are suitable for Physically Challenged person viz.

Visual Impairment/ Hearing Impairment/ Locomotor Disability including Cerebral

Palsy/ Leprosy Cured/Dwarfism/ Acid Attack Victims/ Muscular Dystrophy/

Multiple Disabilities with disability i.e. Low Vision (LV) or Hard of Hearing (HH) or

Both legs affected but not arms (BL) or One leg affected (R or L) (OL) or One

arm affected (R or L) (OA) or One Arm and One Leg Affected (OAL) or Leprosy

Cured (LC) or Dwarfism (DW) or Acid Attack Victim (AAV) or Muscular weakness

and Limited physical endurance (MW) or Multiple Disabilities [2 or more

disabilities among (a) to (c) above] (MD). The posts are permanent. Pay Scale:

Level-11 in the Pay Matrix as per 7th CPC. General Central Service Group ‘A’

Gazetted, Non-Ministerial. Age: 40 years. ESSENTIAL QUALIFICATIONS: (A)

EDUCATIONAL: Degree in Law of a recognized University OR Master Degree in

Law of a recognized University. (B) EXPERIENCE: For LLB Degree Holders: -

Five years practice at a Bar or five years’ experience in the State Judicial Service

or in the Legal Department of a State Government or of the Central Government

or in the processing of applications for registration filed under the Trade Marks

Act or Geographical Indications Act or in teaching law in a recognized University

OR For LLM Degree Holders: - Three years’ experience in teaching law or in

conducting research in law in a recognized University or research Institution.

NOTE-I: Qualifications are relaxable at the discretion of the Union Public Service

Commission in the case of candidates otherwise well qualified. NOTE-II: The

qualification regarding experience is relaxable at the discretion of the Union

Public Service Commission, for reasons to be recorded in writing, in the case of

candidates belonging to the Scheduled Castes or Scheduled Tribes, if, at any

stage of selection, the Union Public Service Commission is of the opinion that

sufficient number of candidates from these communities possessing the requisite

experience are not likely to be available for the posts reserved for them.

DESIRABLE: Ph.D in Intellectual Property from a Recognized university.

DUTIES: Assistant Registrar of Trade Marks & Geographical Indications

functions as a Tribunal under the Trade Marks Act, 1999 and rules there under.

Assistant Registrar of TM and GI takes hearings of contested matters. Assistant

Registrar adjudicates and issues speaking order and decision. Assistant

Registrars of TM and GI also attends court cases and briefs Central Government

Counsel on Trade Mark matters, service matters, Litigation in CAT, High Court 

and Law Ministry under supervision of Joint Registrar, Senior Joint Registrar and

Registrar. Assistant Registrar of TM and GI can be assigned any other work

relating to the subject by Registrar and other Sr. officers as per the exigency of

workload. HQ: Mumbai with All India Service Liability