LawgistThe Trade Marks Act
13Prohibition of registration of names of chemical elements or international non-proprietary names
No word--
(a) which is the commonly used and accepted name of any single chemical element or any single chemical compound (as distinguished from a mixture) in respect of a chemical substance or preparation, or
(b) which is declared by the World Health Organisation and notified in the prescribed manner by the Registrar from time to time, as an international non-proprietary name or which is deceptively similar to such name, shall be registered as a trade mark and any such registration shall be deemed for the purpose of section 57 to be an entry made in the register without sufficient cause or an entry wrongly remaining on the register, as the circumstances may require.
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THE REGISTER AND CONDITIONS FOR REGISTRATION
- 3 Appointment of Registrar and other officers
- 4 Power of Registrar to withdraw or transfer cases, etc
- 5 Trade Marks Registry and offices thereof
- 6 The Register of Trade Marks
- 7 Classification of goods and services
- 8 Publication of alphabetical index
- 9 Absolute grounds for refusal of registration
- 10 Limitation as to colour
- 11 Relative grounds for refusal of registration
- 12 Registration in the case of honest concurrent use, etc
- 13 Prohibition of registration of names of chemical elements or international non-proprietary names
- 14 Use of names and representations of living persons or persons recently dead
- 15 Registration of parts of trade marks and of trade marks as a series
- 16 Registration of trade marks as associated trade marks
- 17 Effect of registration of parts of a mark
