The Trademark Act 1999

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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 Previous Next

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