Table of Content

Section 1 : Short title, extent and commencement
Section 2 : Definitions and interpretation
Section 3 : Appointment of Registrar and other officers
Section 4 : Power of Registrar to withdraw or transfer cases, etc
Section 5 : Trade Marks Registry and offices thereof
Section 6 : The Register of Trade Marks
Section 7 : Classification of goods and services
Section 8 : Publication of alphabetical index
Section 9 : Absolute grounds for refusal of registration
Section 10 : Limitation as to colour
Section 11 : Relative grounds for refusal of registration
Section 12 : Registration in the case of honest concurrent use, etc
Section 13 : Prohibition of registration of names of chemical elements or international non-proprietary names
Section 14 : Use of names and representations of living persons or persons recently dead
Section 15 : Registration of parts of trade marks and of trade marks as a series
Section 16 : Registration of trade marks as associated trade marks
Section 17 : Effect of registration of parts of a mark
Section 18 : Application for registration
Section 19 : Withdrawal of acceptance
Section 20 : Advertisement of application
Section 21 : Opposition to registration
Section 22 : Correction and amendment
Section 23 : Registration
Section 24 : Jointly owned trade marks
Section 25 : Duration, renewal, removal and restoration of registration
Section 26 : Effect of removal from register for failure to pay fee for renewal
Section 27 : No action for infringement of unregistered trade mark
Section 28 : Rights conferred by registration
Section 29 : Infringement of registered trade marks
Section 30 : Limits on effect of registered trade mark
Section 31 : Registration to be prima facie evidence of validity
Section 32 : Protection of registration on ground of distinctiveness in certain cases
Section 33 : Effect of acquiescence
Section 34 : Saving for vested rights
Section 35 : Saving for use of name, address or description of goods or services
Section 36 : Saving for words used as name or description of an article or substance or service
Section 36A : Application of Act in case of international registration under Madrid Protocol
Section 36B : Definitions
Section 36C : Trade Marks Registry to deal with international applications
Section 36D : International application originating from India
Section 36E : International registrations where India has been designated
Section 36F : Effects of international registration
Section 36G : Duration and renewal of international registration
Section 37 : Power of registered proprietor to assign and give receipts
Section 38 : Assignability and transmissibility of registered trade marks
Section 39 : Assignability and transmissibility of unregistered trade marks
Section 40 : Restriction on assignment or transmission where multiple exclusive rights would be created
Section 41 : Restriction on assignment or transmission when exclusive rights would be created in different parts of India
Section 42 : Conditions for assignment otherwise than in connection with the goodwill of a business
Section 43 : Assignability and transmissibility of certification trade marks
Section 44 : Assignability and transmissibility of associated trade marks
Section 45 : Registration of assignments and transmissions
Section 46 : Proposed use of trade mark by company to be formed, etc
Section 47 : Removal from register and imposition of limitations on ground of non-use
Section 48 : Registered users
Section 49 : Registration as registered user
Section 50 : Power of Registrar for variation or cancellation of registration as registered user
Section 51 : Power of Registrar to call for information relating to agreement in respect of registered users
Section 52 : Right of registered user to take proceedings against infringement
Section 53 : No right of permitted user to take proceeding against infringement
Section 54 : Registered user not to have right of assignment or transmission
Section 55 : Use of one of associated or substantially identical trade marks equivalent to use of another
Section 56 : Use of trade mark for export trade and use when form of trade connection changes
Section 57 : Power to cancel or vary registration and to rectify the register
Section 58 : Correction of register
Section 59 : Alteration of registered trade marks
Section 60 : Adaptation of entries in register to amended or substituted classification of goods or services
Section 61 : Special provisions for collective marks
Section 62 : Collective mark not to be misleading as to character or significance
Section 63 : Application to be accompanied by regulations governing use of collective marks
Section 64 : Acceptance of application and regulations by Registrar
Section 65 : Regulations to be open to inspection
Section 66 : Amendment of regulations
Section 67 : Infringement proceedings by registered proprietor of collective mark
Section 68 : Additional grounds for removal of registration of collective mark
Section 69 : Certain provisions of this Act not applicable to certification trade marks
Section 70 : Registration of certification trade marks
Section 71 : Applications for registration of certification trade marks
Section 72 : Consideration of application for registration by Registrar
Section 73 : Opposition to registration of certification trade marks
Section 74 : Filing of regulations governing use of a certification trade mark
Section 75 : Infringement of certification trade marks
Section 76 : Acts not constituting infringement of certification trade marks
Section 77 : Cancellation or varying of registration of certification trade marks
Section 78 : Rights conferred by registration of certification trade marks
Section 91 : Appeals to High Court
Section 94 : Bar to appear before Registrar
Section 97 : Procedure for application for rectification, etc
Section 98 : Appearance of Registrar in legal proceedings
Section 101 : Meaning of applying trade marks and trade descriptions
Section 102 : Falsifying and falsely applying trade marks
Section 103 : Penalty for applying false trade marks, trade descriptions, etc
Section 104 : Penalty for selling goods or providing services to which false trade mark or false trade description is applied
Section 105 : Enhanced penalty on second or subsequent conviction
Section 106 : Penalty for removing piece goods, etc
Section 107 : Penalty for falsely representing a trade mark as registered
Section 108 : Penalty for improperly describing a place of business as connected with the Trade Marks Office
Section 109 : Penalty for falsification of entries in the register
Section 110 : No offence in certain cases
Section 111 : Forfeiture of goods
Section 112 : Exemption of certain persons employed in ordinary course of business
Section 113 : Procedure where invalidity of registration is pleaded by the accused
Section 114 : Offences by companies
Section 115 : Cognizance of certain offences and the powers of police officer for search and seizure
Section 116 : Evidence of origin of goods imported by sea
Section 117 : Costs of defence or prosecution
Section 118 : Limitation of prosecution
Section 119 : Information as to commission of offence
Section 120 : Punishment of abetment in India of acts done out of India
Section 121 : Instructions of Central Government as to permissible variation to be observed by criminal courts
Section 122 : Protection of action taken in good faith
Section 123 : Certain persons to be public servants
Section 124 : Stay of proceedings where the validity of registration of the trade mark is questioned, etc
Section 125 : Application for rectification of register to be made to High Court in certain cases
Section 126 : Implied warranty on sale of marked goods
Section 127 : Powers of Registrar
Section 128 : Exercise of discretionary power by Registrar
Section 129 : Evidence before Registrar
Section 130 : Death of party to a proceeding
Section 131 : Extension of time
Section 132 : Abandonment
Section 133 : Preliminary advice by the Registrar as to distinctiveness
Section 134 : Suit for infringement, etc
Section 135 : Relief in suits for infringement or for passing off
Section 136 : Registered user to be impleaded in certain proceedings
Section 137 : Evidence of entries in register, etc
Section 138 : Registrar and other officers not compellable to produce register, etc
Section 139 : Power to require goods to show indication of origin
Section 140 : Power to require information of imported goods bearing false trade marks
Section 141 : Certificate of validity
Section 142 : Groundless threats of legal proceedings
Section 143 : Address for service
Section 144 : Trade usages, etc
Section 145 : Agents
Section 146 : Marks registered by an agent or representative without authority
Section 147 : Indexes
Section 148 : Documents open to public inspection
Section 149 : Reports of Registrar to be placed before Parliament
Section 150 : Fees and surcharge
Section 151 : Savings in respect of certain matters in Chapter XII
Section 152 : Declaration as to ownership of trade mark not registrable under the Registration Act, 1908
Section 153 : Government to be bound
Section 154 : Special provisions relating to applications for registration from citizens of convention countries
Section 155 : Provision as to reciprocity
Section 156 : Power of Central Government to remove difficulties
Section 157 : Power to make rules
Section 158 : Amendments
Section 159 : Repeal and savings