Section 155
Provision as to reciprocity.
About this Act
An Act to amend and consolidate the law relating to trade marks, to provide for registration and better protection of trade marks for goods and services and for the prevention of the use of fraudulent marks.
Where any country or country which is a member of a group of
countries or union of countries or Inter-Governmental Organisation specified by the Central Government
in this behalf by notification in the Official Gazette does not accord to citizens of India the same rights in
respect of the registration and protection of trade marks as it accords to its own nationals, no national of
such country or country which is a member of a group of countries or union of countries or InterGovernmental
Organisation, as the case may be, shall be entitled, either solely or jointly with any other
person,--
(a) to apply for the registration of, or be registered as the proprietor of, a trade mark;
(b) to be registered as the assignee of the proprietor of a registered trade mark; or
(c) to apply for registration or be registered as a registered user of a trade mark under section 49.
(a) to apply for the registration of, or be registered as the proprietor of, a trade mark;
(b) to be registered as the assignee of the proprietor of a registered trade mark; or
(c) to apply for registration or be registered as a registered user of a trade mark under section 49.