'Operation Sindoor' Trademark: Reliance Withdraws Application, Says 'Junior Person' Filed it
Three individuals have separately moved the registry with similar requests on the same day on which India led the missile strikes under the name.
The Wire Staff
03:38 PM May 08, 2025 IST
New Delhi: Reliance Industries is one of four concerns who moved the Trade Marks Registry to register 'Operation Sindoor' as a work mark on the same day on which India conducted missile strikes on Pakistan under this name. Shortly after this made news, Reliance said it has withdrawn the trade mark.
LiveLaw has reported that the Mukesh Ambani-owned Reliance Industries moved the application on May 7.
The trade marks registry takes down trade marks which qualify under the Trade Marks Act, 1999. This codification allows for better protection of trade mark for goods and services and also to prevent fraudulent use of a trade mark.
The registration of the term has been sought for "goods and services" under Class 41.
Class 41 covers services consisting of all forms of education of persons or training of animals, along with those having the basic aim of the entertainment, amusement or recreation of people, and the presentation of works of visual art or literature to the public for cultural or educational purposes.
This category is often used by production houses. Films with Indian conquests along the border have always been popular, especially in the last decade.
Three others – Mumbai resident Mukesh Chetram Agrawal, retired Group Captain Kamal Singh Oberh and Delhi lawyer Alok Kothari – have moved similar requests.
Bar and Bench reports that all four submitted these applications between 10:42 am and 6:27 pm on May 7, 2025.
The nomenclature of the operation by India, in the wake of the Pahalgam terror attack on April 22 in which 26 people died, has been discussed widely and has not been without criticism.
'Junior person'
On May 8, Reliance Industries released a statement claiming it has no intention of trademarking Operation Sindoor, "a phrase which is now a part of the national consciousness as an evocative symbol of Indian bravery."
It claimed that Jio Studios, a unit of Reliance Industries, has withdrawn its trademark application. It also claimed that the application had been "filed inadvertently by a junior person without authorisation."
Reliance Industries and all its stakeholders are incredibly proud of Operation Sindoor it added.
Note: This report was updated with Reliance Industries' statement.