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Duration and
renewal of
registration.
20$ (1) The registration of a trade mark shall be for a period of
seven years, but may be renewed from time to time in accordance
with this section:
Provided that, in relation to a registration as of a date before
the commencement of this Act, this subsection shall have effect with
the substitution of a period of fourteen years for the said period of
seven years .
(2) The Registrar shall, on application made by the registered
proprietor of a trade mark in the prescribed manner and within
the prescribed period, renew the registration ~f t~e trade ma~k.for
a period of fourteen years from the date of expiration of the original
registration or of the last renewal of registration, as the case may
be, which date is in this section called the expiration of the last
registration ".
(3) At the prescribed time before the expiration of the last
registration of a trade mark, the Registrar shall send notice in the
prescribed manner to the registered proprietor of the date of expiration and the conditions as to payment of fees and otherwise upon
which a renewal of registration may be obtained, and, if at the
expiration. of the time' prescribed in that behalf those conditions
have not been duly complied with, the Registrar may remove the
trade mark from tl egister, subject to such conditions, if any, as
to its restoration t( JC register as may be prescribed.
(4) Subject, to subsection (5) of this section, where a trade
mark has been removed from the register for non-payment of the
fee for renewal, it shall, nevertheless, for the purpose of any application for the registration of a trade mark during one year next after
the date of the removal, be deemed to be a trade mark that is already
on the register"
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(5) Subsection (4) of this section shall not apply where the
Court or the Registrar (as the case may be) is satisfied either(a) that there has been no bonafide trade use of the trade
mark that has been removed during the two years
immediately preceeding its removal;' or
(b) that no deception or confusion would be likely to arise
from the use of the trade mark that is the subject of
the" application for "registration by reason of any
previous use of the trade mark that has been removed,
21e (1) Where the proprietor of a trade mark claims to beentitled
to the exclusive use of any part thereof separately, he may apply to
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and any such part as separate trad e mar ks,
register
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(2) Each such separate trade mark- must satisfy all the condi...
tions of an independent trade mark and shan, subject to subsection
(3) of section 23)lnd .subsection (2) of section 30 of this Act, have all
the incidents of an independent trade mark..
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