Lawgist5Trade Marks Registry and offices thereof
(1) For the purposes of this Act, there shall be a trade marks registry and the Trade Marks Registry established under the Trade and Merchandise Marks Act, 1958 (43 of 1958) shall be the Trade Marks Registry under this Act.
(2) The head office of the Trade Marks Registry shall be at such place as the Central Government may specify, and for the purpose of facilitating the registration of trade marks, there may be established at such places as the Central Government may think fit branch offices of the Trade Marks Registry.
(3) The Central Government may, by notification in the Official Gazette, define the territorial limits within which an office of the Trade Marks Registry may exercise its functions.
(4) There shall be a seal of the Trade Marks Registry.
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- 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
