Trade Marks Act CAP 506▤
Proposed use of trade mark by corporation to be constituted, etc.
(1) No application for the registration of a trade mark in respect of any goods or services to be performed shall be refused, nor…
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Trade Marks Act CAP 506▤
Registered users
(1) Subject to the provisions of this section, a person other than the proprietor of a trade mark may be registered as a licensee…
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Trade Marks Act CAP 506▤
Defensive registration of well-known trade marks
(1) Where a trade mark consisting of an invented word or invented words has become so well known as respects any goods in respect…
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Trade Marks Act CAP 506▤
Removal from register and imposition of limitations on ground of non-use
(1) Subject to the provisions of section 30, a registered trade mark may be taken off the register in respect of any of the goods…
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Trade Marks Act CAP 506▤
Registration of assignments and transmissions
(1) Where a person becomes entitled by assignment or transmission to a registered trade mark, he shall make application to the Reg…
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Trade Marks Act CAP 506▤
Power of registered proprietor to assign and give receipts
Subject to the provisions of this Act, the person for the time being entered in the register as proprietor of a trade mark shall,…
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Trade Marks Act CAP 506▤
Powers of, and restrictions on, assignment and transmission
(1) A registered trade mark is assignable and transmissible either in connection with the goodwill of a business or not. (2) A reg…
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Trade Marks Act CAP 506▤
Registration of part of trade mark and of trade marks as a series
(1) Where the proprietor of a trade mark claims to be entitled to the exclusive use of any part thereof separately, he may apply t…
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Trade Marks Act CAP 506▤
Duration and renewal of registration
(1) The registration of a trade mark shall be for a period of ten years, but may be renewed from time to time in accordance with t…
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Trade Marks Act CAP 506▤
Registration
(1) When an application for registration of a trade mark in Part A or in Part B of the register has been accepted, and either— (a)…
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Trade Marks Act CAP 506▤
Opposition to registration
(1) When an application for registration of a trade mark has been accepted, whether absolutely or subject to conditions or limitat…
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Trade Marks Act CAP 506▤
Application for registration
(1) A person claiming to be the proprietor of a trade mark used or proposed to be used by him who is desirous of registering it sh…
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Trade Marks Act CAP 506▤
Effect of limitation as to colour, and of absence thereof
(1) A trade mark may be limited in whole or in part to one or more specified colours, and in any such case the fact that it is so…
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Trade Marks Act CAP 506▤
Words used as name or description of an article or substance
(1) The registration of a trade mark shall not be deemed to have become invalid by reason only of any use, after the date of the r…
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Trade Marks Act CAP 506▤
Registration subject to disclaimer
If a trade mark— (a) contains any part not separately registered by the proprietor as a trade mark; or (b) contains matter common…
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Trade Marks Act CAP 506▤
Registration in Part A to be conclusive as to validity after seven years
(1) In all legal proceedings relating to a trade mark registered in Part A of the register (including applications under section 3…
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Trade Marks Act CAP 506▤
Protection of well-known trade marks
(1) References in this Act to a trade mark which is entitled to protection under the Paris Convention or the WTO Agreement as a we…
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Trade Marks Act CAP 506▤
Prohibition of registration of identical and resembling trade marks
(1) Subject to the provisions of subsection (2), no trade mark shall be registered in respect of any goods or description of goods…
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Trade Marks Act CAP 506▤
Prohibition of registration of deceptive, etc., matter
(1) No person shall register as a trade mark or part of a trade mark any matter the use of which would, by reason of its being lik…
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Trade Marks Act CAP 506▤
Capability of distinguishing requisite for registration in Part B
(1) In order for a trade mark to be registrable in Part B of the register it must be capable, in relation to the goods in respect…
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Trade Marks Act CAP 506▤
Distinctiveness requisite for registration in Part A
(1) In order for a trade mark (other than a certification trade mark) to be registrable in Part A of the register, it must contain…
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Trade Marks Act CAP 506▤
Saving for use of name, address or description of goods
No registration of a trade mark shall interfere with— (a) any bona fide use by a person of his own name or of the name of his plac…
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Trade Marks Act CAP 506▤
Saving for vested rights
Nothing in this Act shall entitle the proprietor or a licensee of a registered trade mark to interfere with or restrain the use by…
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Trade Marks Act CAP 506▤
Infringement by breach of certain restrictions
(1) Where, by a contract in writing made with the proprietor or a licensee of a registered trade mark, a purchaser or owner of goo…
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