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Restriction on Registration 8. (1) The following cannot be validly registered as trade marks: a) Marks which consist of shape or forms impose by the inherent nature of the goods or by their industrial function. b) Marks which consist exclusively of a sign or indication which may serve, in the course of trade to designate any particularity, such as quality, quantity, purpose, value and place of origin. c) Marks, which have become, in the current language or in the bona fide and established practices of the trade of the country, a customary designation of the goods concerned. d) Marks which are contrary to morality or public order and which, in particular, are calculated to deceive or confuse trade circles or the public as to the nature, the source, the manufacturing process, the characteristics or the suitability for their purpose, of the goods concern. e) Marks which reproduce or imitate armorial bearings, flags and other emblems, initials, names or abbreviations of names of any state or of any intergovernmental international organization or any organization created by an international convention, unless authorized by the competent authority of that state or international organization. f) Marks which reproduce or imitate official signs or Hall marks adopted by a State, unless authorized by the competent authority of that State. g) Marks identical with or similar to emblems of exclusively religious, sectarian or tribal organization. h) Marks which resemble or depict the portrait of a religious or tribal leader or of any sectarian significance. (2) Except with the consent of the interested third party the following marks are not registerable: a) Marks which resemble, in such a way as to be likely to mislead the public, a mark already validly filed or registered by a person validly claiming priority, in respect of the same goods, or of other goods in connection with which use of such marks might be likely to mislead public. b) Marks which constitute a reproduction, in whole or in part, an imitation, a translation, or a transcription, likely to mislead the public, a mark which is well known in the country and belongs to a third party.

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