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Trade Marks Act, 1999 (47 of 1999) Section 10

Title: Limitation as to Colour

State: Central

Year: 1999

(1) A trade mark may be limited wholly or in part to any combination of colours and any such limitation shall be taken into consideration by the tribunal having to decide on the distinctive character of the trade mark. (2) So far as a trade mark is registered without limitation of colour, it shall be deemed to be registered for all colours.

Geographical Indications of Goods (Registration and Protection) Act, 1999 Complete Act

State: Central

Year: 1999

.....expressions used and not defined in this Act but defined in the Trade Marks Act, 1999shall have the meanings respectively assigned to them in that Act. (3) In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires, any reference- (a) to the use of a geographical indication shall be construed as a reference to the use of a printed or other visual representation of the geographical indication; (b) to the use of a geographical indication in relation to goods shall be construed as a reference to the use of the geographical indication upon, or in any physical or in any other relation whatsoever, to such goods; (c) to a registered geographical indication shall be construed as including a reference to a geographical indication registered in the register; (d) to the Registrar shall be construed as including a reference to any officer when discharging the functions of the Registrar in pursuance of sub-section (2) of section 3-; (e) to the Geographical Indications Registry shall be construed as including a reference to any office of the Geographical Indications Registry. SECTION 03: REGISTRAR OF GEOGRAPHICAL INDICATIONS (1) The Controller-General of Patents, Designs and Trade Marks appointed.....

Trade Marks Act, 1999 Complete Act

State: Central

Year: 1999

TRADE MARKS ACT, 1999 TRADE MARKS ACT, 1999 47 of 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. BE it enacted by Parliament in the Fiftieth Year of the Republic of India as follows:- SECTION 01: SHORT TITLE, EXTENT AND COMMENCEMENT (1) This Act may be called the Trade Marks Act, 1999. (2) It extends to the whole of India. (3) It shall come into force on such date as the Central Government may, by notification in the Official Gazette, appoint: Provided that different dates may be appointed for different provisions of this Act, and any reference in any such provision to the commencement of this Act shall be construed as a reference to the coming into force of that provision. SECTION 02: DEFINITIONS AND INTERPRETATION (1) In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires, - (a) "Appellate Board" means the Appellate Board established under section 83-; (b) "assignment" means an assignment in writing by act of the parties concerned; (c) "associated trade marks" means trade marks deemed to be, or.....

Trade Marks Act, 1999 (47 of 1999) Chapter 2

Title: The Register and Conditions for Registration

State: Central

Year: 1999

.....of Trade Marks, both Part A and Part B, existing at the commencement of this Act, shall be incorporated in and form part of the register under this Act. Section 7 - Classification of goods and services (1) The Registrar shall classify goods and services, as far as may be, in accordance with the International classification of goods and services for the purposes of registration of trade marks. (2) Any question arising as to the class within which any goods or services falls shall be determined by the Registrar whose decision shall be final. Section 8 - Publication of alphabetical index (1) The Registrar may publish in the prescribed manner an alphabetical index of classification of goods and services referred to in section 7. (2) Where any goods or services are not specified in the alphabetical index of goods and services published under sub-section (1), the classification of goods or services shall be determined by the Registrar in accordance with sub-section (2) of section 7. Section 9 - Absolute grounds for refusal of registration (1) The trade marks-- (a) which are devoid of any distinctive character, that is to say, not capable of distinguishing the goods.....

Trade Marks Act, 1999 (47 of 1999) Chapter 1

Title: Preliminary

State: Central

Year: 1999

.....with which it is used in the course of trade which are certified by the proprietor of the mark in respect of origin, material, mode of manufacture of goods or performance of services, quality, accuracy or other characteristics from goods or services not so certified and registrable as such under Chapter IX in respect of those goods or services in the name, as proprietor of the certification trade mark, of that person; (f) "Chairman" means the Chairman of the Appellate Board; (g) "collective mark" means a trade mark distinguishing the goods or services of members of an association of persons [not being a partnership within the meaning of the Indian Partnership Act, 1932 (9 of 1932)] which is the proprietor of the mark from those of others; (h) "deceptively similar".--A mark shall be deemed to be deceptively similar to another mark if it so nearly resembles that other mark as to be likely to deceive or cause confusion; (i) "false trade description" means-- (I) a trade description which is untrue or misleading in a material respect as regards the goods or services to which it is applied; or (II) any alteration of a trade description as regards the goods or.....

Trade Marks Act, 1999 (47 of 1999) Section 2

Title: Definitions and Interpretation

State: Central

Year: 1999

.....with which it is used in the course of trade which are certified by the proprietor of the mark in respect of origin, material, mode of manufacture of goods or performance of services, quality, accuracy or other characteristics from goods or services not so certified and registrable as such under Chapter IX in respect of those goods or services in the name, as proprietor of the certification trade mark, of that person; (f) "Chairman" means the Chairman of the Appellate Board; (g) "collective mark" means a trade mark distinguishing the goods or services of members of an association of persons [not being a partnership within the meaning of the Indian Partnership Act, 1932 (9 of 1932)] which is the proprietor of the mark from those of others; (h) "deceptively similar".--A mark shall be deemed to be deceptively similar to another mark if it so nearly resembles that other mark as to be likely to deceive or cause confusion; (i) "false trade description" means-- (I) a trade description which is untrue or misleading in a material respect as regards the goods or services to which it is applied; or (II) any alteration of a trade description as regards the goods or.....

Insurance Regulatory and Development Authority Act, 1999 Complete Act

State: Central

Year: 1999

.....thereto and further to amend the Insurance Act, 1938, the Life Insurance Corporation Act, 1956 and the General Insurance Business (Nationalisation) Act, 1972. Be it enacted by Parliament in the Fiftieth Year of the Republic of India as follows: STATEMENT OF OBJECTS AND REASONS 1. The insurance industry requires a high degree of regulation. The Insurance Act, 1938 provides for the institution of the Controller of Insurance to act as a strong and powerful supervisory and regulatory authority with powers to direct, advise, caution, prohibit, investigate, inspect, prosecute, search, seize, fine, amalgamate, authorise, register and liquidate insurance companies. However, after the nationalisation of the life insurance industry in 1956 and the general insurance industry in 1972, the role of the Controller of Insurance diminished in significance over a period of time. 2. In April, 1993, the Government set up a high-powered Committee headed by Shri R.N. Malhotra, former Governor, Reserve Bank of India, to examine the structure of the insurance industry and recommend changes to make it more efficient and competitive keeping in view the structural changes in other parts of the financial.....

Trade Marks Act, 1999 (47 of 1999) Section 15

Title: Registration of Parts of Trade Marks and of Trade Marks as a Series

State: Central

Year: 1999

(1) Where the proprietor of a trade mark claims to be entitled to the exclusive use of any part thereof separately, he may apply to register the whole and the part as separate trade marks. (2) Each such separate trade mark shall satisfy all the conditions applying to and have all the incidents of, an independent trade mark. (3) Where a person claiming to be the proprietor of several trade marks in respect of the same or similar goods or services or description of goods or description of services, which, while resembling each other in the material particulars thereof, yet differ in respect of-- (a) statement of the goods or services in relation to which they are respectively used or proposed to be used; or (b) statement of number, price, quality or names of places; or (c) other matter of a non-distinctive character which does not substantially affect the identity of the trade mark; or (d) colour, seeks to register those trade marks, they may be registered as a series in one registration.

Trade Marks Act, 1999 (47 of 1999) Complete Act

Title: Trade Marks Act, 1999 (47 of 1999)

State: Central

Year: 1999

.....renewal, removal and restoration of registration Section26 - Effect of removal from register for failure to pay fee for renewal Chapter 4 Section27 - No action for infringement of unregistered mark Section28 - Rights conferred by registration Section29 - Infringement of registered trade marks Section30 - Limits on effect of registered trade mark Section31 - Registration to be prima facie evidence of validity Section32 - Protection of registration on ground of distinctiveness in certain cases Section33 - Effect of acquiescence Section34 - Saving for vested rights Section35 - Saving for use of name, address or description of goods or services Section36 - Saving for words used as name or description of an article or substance or service Chapter 5 Section37 - Power of registered proprietor to assign and give receipts Section38 - Assignability and transmissibility of registered trade marks Section39 - Assignability and transmissibility of unregistered trade marks Section40 - Restriction on assignment or transmission where multiple exclusive rights would be created Section41 - Restriction on assignment or transmission when exclusive rights would be created in.....

The Maharashtra Rent Control Act, 1999 Complete Act

State: Maharashtra

Year: 1999

.....or continued under requisition under the Bombay Land Requisition Act, 1948; (11) "prescribed" means prescribed by rules; (12) "repealed Act" or "repealed Acts" means the Act, or Acts referred to in section 58. (13) "rules" means the rules made under this Act; (14) "standard rent", in relation to any premises means, (a) where the standard rent is fixed by the Court or, as the case may be, the Controller under the Bombay Rent Restriction Act, 1939, or the Bombay Rents, Hotel Rates and Lodging House Rates (Control) Act, 1944 or the Bombay Rents, Hotel and Lodging House Rates Control Act, 1947, or the Central Provinces and Berar Letting of Houses and Rent Control Order, 1949 issued under the Central Provinces and Berar Regulation of Letting of Accommodation Act, 1946, or the Hyderabad Houses (Rent, Eviction and Lease) Control Act, 1954, such rent plus an increase of 5 per cent, in the rent so fixed; or (b) where the standard rent or fair rent is not so fixed, then subject to the provisions of sections 6 and 8, (i) the rent at which the premises were let on the 1st day of October 1987; or (ii) where the premises were not let on the 1st day of October 1987, or the rent at.....