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