Act Number: 47

Act Name: The Trade Marks Act, 1999

Year: 1999

Enactment Date: 1999-12-30

Long Title: 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.

Ministry: Ministry of Commerce and Industry

Department: Department of Promotion of Industry and Internal Trade

Section 17: Effect of registration of parts of a mark.
    (1) When a trade mark consists of several matters, its registration shall confer on the proprietor exclusive right to the use of the trade mark taken as a whole.
     (2) Notwithstanding anything contained in sub-section (1), when a trade mark--
         (a) contains any part--
             (i) which is not the subject of a separate application by the proprietor for registration as a trade mark; or
             (ii) which is not separately registered by the proprietor as a trade mark; or
         (b) contains any matter which is common to the trade or is otherwise of a non-distinctive character, the registration thereof shall not confer any exclusive right in the matter forming only a part of the whole of the trade mark so registered.
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