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Section 57: Power to cancel or vary registration and to rectify the register.

The Trade Marks Act, 1999Central Act · Act 47 of 1999

(1) On application made in the prescribed manner to the [High Court] or to the Registrar by any person aggrieved, the [Register or the High Court, as the case may be,] may make such order as it may think fit for cancelling or varying the registration of a trade mark on the ground of any contravention, or failure to observe a condition entered on the register in relation thereto.

(2) Any person aggrieved by the absence or omission from the register of any entry, or by any entry made in the register without sufficient cause, or by any entry wrongly remaining on the register, or by any error or defect in any entry in the register, may apply in the prescribed manner to the [High Court] or to the Registrar, and the [Register or the High Court, as the case may be,] may make such order for making, expunging or varying the entry as it may think fit.

(3) The [Register or the High Court, as the case may be,] may in any proceeding under this section decide any question that may be necessary or expedient to decide in connection with the rectification of the register.

(4) The [Register or the High Court, as the case may be,], of its own motion, may, after giving notice in the prescribed manner to the parties concerned and after giving them an opportunity of being heard, make any order referred to in sub-section (1) or sub-section (2).

(5) Any order of the [High Court] rectifying the register shall direct that notice of the rectification shall be served upon the Registrar in the prescribed manner who shall upon receipt of such notice rectify the register accordingly.

Where this provision sits

ActThe Trade Marks Act, 1999
Section57
Marginal notePower to cancel or vary registration and to rectify the register.
JurisdictionCentral
StatusIn force as published by the source
Judgments citing it2

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. . Subs. by s. 21, ibid., for “Appellate Board” (w.e.f. 4-4-2021).
  • substituted. . Subs. by s. 21, ibid., for “tribunal” (w.e.f. 4-4-2021).

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