Trade Marks Act, 1999

Bare Act · 1999

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.

In the syllabus of: AIBE · Andhra Pradesh APO · Delhi Higher Judiciary · RPSC Assistant Professor (Law) · Telangana Higher Judiciary · UGC NET Law · UPSC Law Optional

Act number: 47 of 1999
Enacted: 30 December 1999
Contents: 170 sections · 14 chapters

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Chapter I — Preliminary

Chapter II — The Register And Conditions For Registration

Chapter III — Procedure For And Duration Of Registration

Section 18 – Application for registration (preview)
Section 19 – Withdrawal of acceptance (preview)
Section 20 – Advertisement of application (preview)
Section 21 – Opposition to registration (preview)
Section 22 – Correction and amendment (preview)
Section 23 – Registration (preview)
Section 24 – Jointly owned trade marks (preview)
Section 25 – Duration, renewal, removal and restoration of registration (preview)
Section 26 – Effect of removal from register for failure to pay fee for renewal (preview)

Chapter IV — Effect Of Registration

Chapter IVA — Special Provisions Relating To Protection Of Trade Marks Through International Registration Under The Madrid Protocol

Chapter V — Assignment And Transmission

Chapter VI — Use Of Trade Marks And Registered Users

Chapter VII — Rectification And Correction Of The Register

Chapter VIII — Collective Marks

Chapter IX — Certification Trade Marks

Section 69 – Certain provisions of this Act not applicable to certification trade marks (preview)
Section 70 – Registration of certification trade marks (preview)
Section 71 – Applications for registration of certification trade marks (preview)
Section 72 – Consideration of application for registration by Registrar (preview)
Section 73 – Opposition to registration of certification trade marks (preview)
Section 74 – Filing of regulations governing use of a certification trade mark (preview)
Section 75 – Infringement of certification trade marks (preview)
Section 76 – Acts not constituting infringement of certification trade marks (preview)
Section 77 – Cancellation or varying of registration of certification trade marks (preview)
Section 78 – Rights conferred by registration of certification trade marks (preview)
Section 79 – [Omitted.] (preview)
Section 80 – [Omitted.] (preview)
Section 81 – [Omitted.] (preview)
Section 82 – [Omitted.] (preview)

Chapter XI — Appeals

Sections

Chapter XII — Offences, Penalties And Procedure

Section 101 – Meaning of applying trade marks and trade descriptions (preview)
Section 102 – Falsifying and falsely applying trade marks (preview)
Section 103 – Penalty for applying false trade marks, trade descriptions, etc (preview)
Section 104 – Penalty for selling goods or providing services to which false trade mark or false trade description is applied (preview)
Section 105 – Enhanced penalty on second or subsequent conviction (preview)
Section 106 – Omitted (preview)
Section 107 – Penalty for falsely representing a trade mark as registered (preview)
Section 108 – Omitted (preview)
Section 109 – Omitted (preview)
Section 110 – No offence in certain cases (preview)
Section 111 – Forfeiture of goods (preview)
Section 112 – Exemption of certain persons employed in ordinary course of business (preview)
Section 112A – Adjudication of penalties (preview)
Section 113 – Procedure where invalidity of registration is pleaded by the accused (preview)
Section 114 – Offences by companies (preview)
Section 115 – Cognizance of certain offences and the powers of police officer for search and seizure (preview)
Section 116 – Evidence of origin of goods imported by sea (preview)
Section 117 – Costs of defence or prosecution (preview)
Section 118 – Limitation of prosecution (preview)
Section 119 – Information as to commission of offence (preview)
Section 120 – Punishment of abetment in India of acts done out of India (preview)
Section 121 – Instructions of Central Government as to permissible variation to be observed by criminal courts (preview)

Chapter XIII — Miscellaneous

Section 122 – Protection of action taken in good faith (preview)
Section 123 – Certain persons to be public servants (preview)
Section 124 – Stay of proceedings where the validity of registration of the trade mark is questioned, etc (preview)
Section 125 – Application for rectification of register to be made to High Court in certain cases (preview)
Section 126 – Implied warranty on sale of marked goods (preview)
Section 127 – Powers of Registrar (preview)
Section 128 – Exercise of discretionary power by Registrar (preview)
Section 129 – Evidence before Registrar (preview)
Section 130 – Death of party to a proceeding (preview)
Section 131 – Extension of time (preview)
Section 132 – Abandonment (preview)
Section 133 – Preliminary advice by the Registrar as to distinctiveness (preview)
Section 134 – Suit for infringement, etc., to be instituted before District Court (preview)
Section 135 – Relief in suits for infringement or for passing off (preview)
Section 136 – Registered user to be impleaded in certain proceedings (preview)
Section 137 – Evidence of entries in register, etc., and things done by the Registrar (preview)
Section 138 – Registrar and other officers not compellable to produce register, etc (preview)
Section 139 – Power to require goods to show indication of origin (preview)
Section 140 – Power to require information of imported goods bearing false trade marks (preview)
Section 141 – Certificate of validity (preview)
Section 142 – Groundless threats of legal proceedings (preview)
Section 143 – Address for service (preview)
Section 144 – Trade usages, etc., to be taken into consideration (preview)
Section 145 – Agents (preview)
Section 146 – Marks registered by an agent or representative without authority (preview)
Section 147 – Indexes (preview)
Section 148 – Documents open to public inspection (preview)
Section 149 – Reports of Registrar to be placed before Parliament (preview)
Section 150 – Fees and surcharge (preview)
Section 151 – Savings in respect of certain matters in Chapter XII (preview)
Section 152 – Declaration as to ownership of trade mark not registrable under the Registration Act, 1908 (preview)
Section 153 – Government to be bound (preview)
Section 154 – Special provisions relating to applications for registration from citizens of convention countries (preview)
Section 155 – Provision as to reciprocity (preview)
Section 156 – Power of Central Government to remove difficulties (preview)
Section 157 – Power to make rules (preview)
Section 158 – Amendments (preview)
Section 159 – Repeal and savings (preview)