Trademark Act, 1999

  • June 12, 2021

Trademark Act, 1999

Section 1 of Trademark Act, 1999: Short title, extent and commencement.
Section 2 of Trademark Act, 1999: Definitions and interpretation.
Section 3 of Trademark Act, 1999: Appointment of Registrar and other officers.
Section 4 of Trademark Act, 1999: Power of Registrar to withdraw or transfer cases, etc.
Section 5 of Trademark Act, 1999: Trade Marks Registry and offices thereof.
Section 6 of Trademark Act, 1999: The Register of Trade Marks.
Section 7 of Trademark Act, 1999: Classification of goods and services.
Section 8 of Trademark Act, 1999: Publication of alphabetical index.
Section 9 of Trademark Act, 1999: Absolute grounds for refusal of registration.
Section 10 of Trademark Act, 1999: Limitation as to colour.
Section 11 of Trademark Act, 1999: Relative grounds for refusal of registration.
Section 12 of Trademark Act, 1999: Registration in the case of honest concurrent use, etc.
Section 13 of Trademark Act, 1999: Prohibition of registration of names of chemical elements or international non-proprietary names.
Section 14 of Trademark Act, 1999: Use of names and representations of living persons or persons recently dead.
Section 15 of Trademark Act, 1999: Registration of parts of trade marks and of trade marks as a series.
Section 16 of Trademark Act, 1999: Registration of trade marks as associated trade marks.
Section 17 of Trademark Act, 1999: Effect of registration of parts of a mark.
Section 18 of Trademark Act, 1999: Application for registration.
Section 19 of Trademark Act, 1999: Withdrawal of acceptance.
Section 20 of Trademark Act, 1999: Advertisement of application.
Section 21 of Trademark Act, 1999: Opposition to registration.
Section 22 of Trademark Act, 1999: Correction and amendment.
Section 23 of Trademark Act, 1999: Registration.
Section 24 of Trademark Act, 1999: Jointly owned trade marks.
Section 25 of Trademark Act, 1999: Duration, renewal, removal and restoration of registration.
Section 26 of Trademark Act, 1999: Effect of removal from register for failure to pay fee for renewal.
Section 27 of Trademark Act, 1999: No action for infringement of unregistered trade mark.
Section 28 of Trademark Act, 1999: Rights conferred by registration.
Section 29 of Trademark Act, 1999: Infringement of registered trade marks.
Section 30 of Trademark Act, 1999: Limits on effect of registered trade mark.
Section 31 of Trademark Act, 1999: Registration to be prima facie evidence of validity.
Section 32 of Trademark Act, 1999: Protection of registration on ground of distinctiveness in certain cases.
Section 33 of Trademark Act, 1999: Effect of acquiescence.
Section 34 of Trademark Act, 1999: Saving for vested rights.
Section 35 of Trademark Act, 1999: Saving for use of name, address or description of goods or services.
Section 36 of Trademark Act, 1999: Saving for words used as name or description of an article or substance or service.
Section 37 of Trademark Act, 1999: Power of registered proprietor to assign and give receipts.
Section 38 of Trademark Act, 1999: Assignability and transmissibility of registered trade marks.
Section 39 of Trademark Act, 1999: Assignability and transmissibility of unregistered trade marks.
Section 40 of Trademark Act, 1999: Restriction on assignment or transmission where multiple exclusive rights would be created.
Section 41 of Trademark Act, 1999: Restriction on assignment or transmission when exclusive rights would be created in different parts of India.
Section 42 of Trademark Act, 1999: Conditions for assignment otherwise than in connection with the goodwill of a business.
Section 43 of Trademark Act, 1999: Assignability and transmissibility of certification trade marks.
Section 44 of Trademark Act, 1999: Assignability and transmissibility of associated trade marks.
Section 45 of Trademark Act, 1999: Registration of assignments and transmissions.
Section 46 of Trademark Act, 1999: Proposed use of trade mark by company to be formed, etc.
Section 47 of Trademark Act, 1999: Removal from register and imposition of limitations on ground of non-use.
Section 48 of Trademark Act, 1999: Registered users.
Section 49 of Trademark Act, 1999: Registration as registered user.
Section 50 of Trademark Act, 1999: Power of Registrar for variation or cancellation of registration as registered user.
Section 51 of Trademark Act, 1999: Power of Registrar to call for information relating to agreement in respect of registered users.
Section 52 of Trademark Act, 1999: Right of registered user to take proceedings against infringement.
Section 53 of Trademark Act, 1999: No right of permitted user to take proceeding against infringement.
Section 54 of Trademark Act, 1999: Registered user not to have right of assignment or transmission.
Section 55 of Trademark Act, 1999: Use of one of associated or substantially identical trade marks equivalent to use of another.
Section 56 of Trademark Act, 1999: Use of trade mark for export trade and use when form of trade connection changes.
Section 57 of Trademark Act, 1999: Power to cancel or vary registration and to rectify the register.
Section 58 of Trademark Act, 1999: Correction of register.
Section 59 of Trademark Act, 1999: Alteration of registered trade marks.
Section 60 of Trademark Act, 1999: Adaptation of entries in register to amended or substituted classification of goods or services.
Section 61 of Trademark Act, 1999: Special provisions for collective marks.
Section 62 of Trademark Act, 1999: Collective mark not to be misleading as to character or significance.
Section 63 of Trademark Act, 1999: Application to be accompanied by regulations governing use of collective marks.
Section 64 of Trademark Act, 1999: Acceptance of application and regulations by Registrar.
Section 65 of Trademark Act, 1999: Regulations to be open to inspection.
Section 66 of Trademark Act, 1999: Amendment of regulations.
Section 67 of Trademark Act, 1999: Infringement proceedings by registered proprietor of collective mark.
Section 68 of Trademark Act, 1999: Additional grounds for removal of registration of collective mark.
Section 69 of Trademark Act, 1999: Certain provisions of this Act not applicable to certification trade marks.
Section 70 of Trademark Act, 1999: Registration of certification trade marks.
Section 71 of Trademark Act, 1999: Applications for registration of certification trade marks.
Section 72 of Trademark Act, 1999: Consideration of application for registration by the Registrar.
Section 73 of Trademark Act, 1999: Opposition to registration of certification trade marks.
Section 74 of Trademark Act, 1999: Filing of regulations governing use of a certification trade mark.
Section 75 of Trademark Act, 1999: Infringement of certification trade marks.
Section 76 of Trademark Act, 1999: Acts not constituting infringement of certification trade marks.
Section 77 of Trademark Act, 1999: Cancellation or varying of registration of certification trade marks.
Section 78 of Trademark Act, 1999: Rights conferred by registration of certification trade marks.
Section 79 of Trademark Act, 1999: Textile goods.
Section 80 of Trademark Act, 1999: Restriction on registration of textile goods.
Section 81 of Trademark Act, 1999: Stamping of piece goods, cotton yarn and thread.
Section 82 of Trademark Act, 1999: Determination of character of textile goods by sampling.
Section 83 of Trademark Act, 1999: Establishment of Appellate Board1.
Section 84 of Trademark Act, 1999: Composition of Appellate Board.
Section 85 of Trademark Act, 1999: Qualifications for appointment as Chairman, Vice-Chairman, or other Members.
Section 86 of Trademark Act, 1999: Term of office of Chairman, Vice-Chairman and other Members.
Section 87 of Trademark Act, 1999: Vice-Chairman or senior-most Member to act as Chairman or discharge his functions in certain circumstances.
Section 88 of Trademark Act, 1999: Salaries, allowances and other terms and conditions of service of Chairman, Vice-Chairman and other Members.
Section 89 of Trademark Act, 1999: Resignation and removal.
Section 90 of Trademark Act, 1999: Staff of Appellate Board.
Section 91 of Trademark Act, 1999: Appeals to Appellate Board.
Section 92 of Trademark Act, 1999: Procedure and powers of Appellate Board.
Section 93 of Trademark Act, 1999: Bar of jurisdiction of courts, etc.
Section 94 of Trademark Act, 1999: Bar to appear before Appellate Board.
Section 95 of Trademark Act, 1999: Conditions as to making of interim orders.
Section 96 of Trademark Act, 1999: Power of Chairman to transfer cases from one Bench to another.
Section 97 of Trademark Act, 1999: Procedure for application for rectification, etc.
Section 98 of Trademark Act, 1999: Appearance of Registrar in legal proceedings.
Section 99 of Trademark Act, 1999: Costs of Registrar in proceedings before Appellate Board.
Section 100 of Trademark Act, 1999: Transfer of pending proceedings to Appellate Board.
Section 101 of Trademark Act, 1999: Meaning of applying trade marks and trade descriptions.
Section 102 of Trademark Act, 1999: Falsifying and falsely applying trade marks.
Section 103 of Trademark Act, 1999: Penalty for applying false trade marks, trade descriptions, etc.
Section 104 of Trademark Act, 1999: Penalty for selling goods or providing services to which false trade mark or false trade description is applied.
Section 105 of Trademark Act, 1999: Enhanced penalty on second or subsequent conviction.
Section 106 of Trademark Act, 1999: Penalty for removing piece goods, etc.
Section 107 of Trademark Act, 1999: Penalty for falsely representing a trade mark as registered.
Section 108 of Trademark Act, 1999: Penalty for improperly describing a place of business as connected with the Trade Marks Office.
Section 109 of Trademark Act, 1999: Penalty for falsification of entries in the register.
Section 110 of Trademark Act, 1999: No offence in certain cases.
Section 111 of Trademark Act, 1999: Forfeiture of goods.
Section 112 of Trademark Act, 1999: Exemption of certain persons employed in ordinary course of business.
Section 113 of Trademark Act, 1999: Procedure where invalidity of registration is pleaded by the accused.
Section 114 of Trademark Act, 1999: Offences by companies.
Section 115 of Trademark Act, 1999: Cognizance of certain offences and the powers of police officer for search and seizure.
Section 116 of Trademark Act, 1999: Evidence of origin of goods imported by sea.
Section 117 of Trademark Act, 1999: Costs of defence or prosecution.
Section 118 of Trademark Act, 1999: Limitation of prosecution.
Section 119 of Trademark Act, 1999: Information as to commission of offence.
Section 120 of Trademark Act, 1999: Punishment of abetment in India of acts done out of India.
Section 121 of Trademark Act, 1999: Instructions of Central Government as to permissible variation to be observed by criminal courts.
Section 122 of Trademark Act, 1999: Protection of action taken in good faith.
Section 123 of Trademark Act, 1999: Certain persons to be public servants.
Section 124 of Trademark Act, 1999: Stay of proceedings where the validity of registration of the trade mark is questioned, etc.
Section 125 of Trademark Act, 1999: Application for rectification of register to be made to Appellate Board in certain cases.
Section 126 of Trademark Act, 1999: Implied warranty on sale of marked goods.
Section 127 of Trademark Act, 1999: Powers of Registrar.
Section 128 of Trademark Act, 1999: Exercise of discretionary power by Registrar.
Section 129 of Trademark Act, 1999: Evidence before Registrar.
Section 130 of Trademark Act, 1999: Death of party to a proceeding.
Section 131 of Trademark Act, 1999: Extension of time.
Section 132 of Trademark Act, 1999: Abandonment.
Section 133 of Trademark Act, 1999: Preliminary advice by the Registrar as to distinctiveness.
Section 134 of Trademark Act, 1999: Suit for infringement, etc.
Section 135 of Trademark Act, 1999: Relief in suits for infringement or for passing off.
Section 136 of Trademark Act, 1999: Registered user to be impleaded in certain proceedings.
Section 137 of Trademark Act, 1999: Evidence of entries in register, etc.
Section 138 of Trademark Act, 1999: Registrar and other officers not compellable to produce register, etc.
Section 139 of Trademark Act, 1999: Power to require goods to show indication of origin.
Section 140 of Trademark Act, 1999: Power to require information of imported goods bearing false trade marks.
Section 141 of Trademark Act, 1999: Certificate of validity.
Section 142 of Trademark Act, 1999: Groundless threats of legal proceedings.
Section 143 of Trademark Act, 1999: Address for service.
Section 144 of Trademark Act, 1999: Trade usages, etc.
Section 145 of Trademark Act, 1999: Agents.
Section 146 of Trademark Act, 1999: Marks registered by an agent or representative without authority.
Section 147 of Trademark Act, 1999: Indexes.
Section 148 of Trademark Act, 1999: Documents open to public inspection.
Section 149 of Trademark Act, 1999: Reports of Registrar to be placed before Parliament.
Section 150 of Trademark Act, 1999: Fees and surcharge.
Section 151 of Trademark Act, 1999: Savings in respect of certain matters in Chapter XII.
Section 152 of Trademark Act, 1999: Declaration as to ownership of trade mark not registrable under the Registration Act, 1908.
Section 153 of Trademark Act, 1999: Government to be bound.
Section 154 of Trademark Act, 1999: Special provisions relating to applications for registration from citizens of convention countries.
Section 155 of Trademark Act, 1999: Provision as to reciprocity.
Section 156 of Trademark Act, 1999: Power of Central Government to remove difficulties.
Section 157 of Trademark Act, 1999: Power to make rules.
Section 158 of Trademark Act, 1999: Amendments.
Section 159 of Trademark Act, 1999: Repeal and savings.