Trade Marks
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(b) a person has been permitted under subsection (2) of section
seventeen to register an identical or nearly resembling trade
mark in respect of those goods under a registration extend
ing to use in relation to goods to be sold or otherwise traded
in in that place (otherwise than for export from Zambia) or
in relation to goods to be exported to that market or the
High Court or the Registrar is of opinion that he might
properly be permitted so to register such a trade mark;
on application by that person to the High Court or, at the option of
the applicant and subject to the provisions of section sixty-Jour, to the
Registrar, the Tribunal or the Registrar may impose on the registra
tion of the first-mentioned trade mark such limitations as the High
Court or the Registrar thinks proper for securing that that registration
shall cease to extend to such use as last aforesaid.
(3) An applicant shall not be entitled to rely for the purposes of
paragraph (b) of subsection (1), or for the purposes of subsection (2),
on any non-use of a trade mark that is shown to have been due to spe
cial circumstances in the trade and not to any intention not to use or
to abandon the trade mark in relation to the goods to which the appli
cation relates.
(As amended by G.N. No. 186 of 1964
and Act No. 17 of 1980)
32. (l) Where a trade mark registered in Part A of the register has
become so well known as respects any goods in respect of which it
has been used that the use thereof in relation to other goods would be
likely to be taken as indicating a connection in the course of trade
between those goods and a person entitled to use the trade mark in
relation to the first-mentioned goods, then, notwithstanding that the
proprietor registered in respect of the first-mentioned goods does not
use or propose to use that trade mark in relation to those other goods
and notwithstanding anything in section thirty-one, the trade mark
may, on the application in writing in the prescribed manner of the
proprietor registered in respect of the first-mentioned goods, be reg
istered in Part D of the register in his name in respect of those other
goods as a defensive trade mark and, while so registered, shall not be
liable to be taken off the register in respect of those goods under sec
tion thirty-one.
(2) The registered proprietor of a trade mark may apply for the
registration thereof in respect of any goods as a defensive trade mark,
notwithstanding that it is already registered in his name in respect of
those goods otherwise than as a defensive trade mark, or may apply
for the registration thereof in respect of any goods otherwise than as
a defensive trade mark, notwithstanding that it is already registered
in his name in respect of those goods as a defensive trade mark, in
lieu in each case of tlie existing registration.
Defensive
registration of
well-known
trade marks
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