https://lexforti.com/legal-news/trademark-registration-is-a-necessity/ Legal Sun, 17 Jan 2021 10:58:46 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.2.6 https://lexforti.com/legal-news/trademark-registration-is-a-necessity/#comment-627 Fri, 06 Nov 2020 14:06:03 +0000 https://lexforti.com/legal-news/?p=2386#comment-627 […] To understand deceptively similar trademarks, we will have to delve into Section 9 and 11 of The Trademarks Act, 1999. As mentioned above, to protect a trademark from infringement, registration is sought. However, a mark has to qualify for registration. Section 9 chalks out the absolute grounds of refusal of registration while Section 11 chalks out the relative grounds of refusal of registration. These sections give the Registrar power to refuse a trademark application. Absolute grounds of refusal talk about the qualities a mark should have or refrain from having in order to be registered and the relative grounds of refusal are between two marks where one trademark is already registered and the new trademark seeking registration is not registrable when compared to the existing trademark. […]

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