Section 58: Application for rectification of register to be made to High Court in certain cases.

The Geographical Indications of Goods (Registration and Protection) Act, 1999Central Act · Act 48 of 1999

(1) Where in a suit for infringement of a registered geographical indication the validity of the registration of the geographical indication relating to plaintiff is questioned by the defendant or where in any such suit the plaintiff questions the validity of the registration of the geographical indication relating to defendant, the issue as to the validity of the registration of the geographical indication concerned shall be determined only on an application for the rectification of the register and, notwithstanding anything contained in section 27, such application shall be made to the [High Court] and not to the Registrar.

(2) Subject to the provisions of sub-section (1), where an application for rectification of the register is made to the Registrar under section 27, the Registrar may, if he thinks fit, refer the application at any stage of the proceedings to the [High Court].

Where this provision sits

Act	The Geographical Indications of Goods (Registration and Protection) Act, 1999
Section	58
Marginal note	Application for rectification of register to be made to High Court in certain cases.
Jurisdiction	Central
Status	In force as published by the source

How this provision has been amended

Taken from the footnotes printed with the provision by the source. Where a footnote names the amending instrument, it is quoted as printed.

substituted, Act 33 of 2021. . Subs. by Act 33 of 2021, s. 22, for “Appellate Board” (w.e.f. 4-4-2021).

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