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The Geographical Indications of Goods (Registration and Protection) Act

An Act to provide for the registration and better protection of geographical indications relating to goods.
1999
List of Chapters & Sections

  1. PRELIMINARY

  2. 1
     Short title, extent and commencement
  3. 2
     Definitions and interpretation

  • THE REGISTER AND CONDITIONS FOR REGISTRATION

  • 3
     Registrar of Geographical Indications
  • 4
     Power of Registrar to withdraw or transfer cases, etc
  • 5
     Geographical Indications Registry and offices thereof
  • 6
     Register of Geographical Indications
  • 7
     Part A and Part B of the register
  • 8
     Registration to be in respect of particular goods and area
  • 9
     Prohibition of registration of certain geographical indications
  • 10
     Registration of homonymous geographical indications

  • PROCEDURE FOR AND DURATION OF REGISTRATION

  • 11
     Application for registration
  • 12
     Withdrawal of acceptance
  • 13
     Advertisement of application
  • 14
     Opposition to registration
  • 15
     Correction and amendment
  • 16
     Registration
  • 17
     Application for registration as authorised user
  • 18
     Duration, renewal, removal and restoration of registration
  • 19
     Effect of removal from register for failure to pay fee for renewal

  • EFFECT OF REGISTRATION

  • 20
     No action for infringement of unregistered geographical indication
  • 21
     Rights conferred by registration
  • 22
     Infringement or registered geographical indications
  • 23
     Registration to be prima facie evidence of validity
  • 24
     Prohibition of assignment or transmission, etc

  • SPECIAL, PROVISIONS RELATING TO TRADE MARK AND PRIOR USERS

  • 25
     Prohibition of registration of geographical indication as trade mark
  • 26
     Protection to certain trade marks

  • RECTIFICATION AND CORRECTION OF THE REGISTER

  • 27
     Power to cancel or vary registration and to rectify the register
  • 28
     Correction of register
  • 29
     Alteration of registered geographical indications
  • 30
     Adaptation of entries in register to amend or substitute classification of goods

  • APPEALS TO THE APPELLATE BOARD

  • 31
     Appeals to the Appellate Board
  • 32
     Bar of jurisdiction of courts, etc
  • 33
     Procedure of the Appellate Board
  • 34
     Procedure for application for rectification, etc., before Appellate Board
  • 35
     Appearance of Registrar in legal proceedings
  • 36
     Costs of Registrar in proceedings before Appellate Board

  • OFFENCES, PENALTIES AND PROCEDURE

  • 37
     Meaning of applying geographical indications
  • 38
     Falsifying and falsely applying geographical indications
  • 39
     Penalty for applying false geographical indications
  • 40
     Penalty for selling goods to which false geographical indication is applied
  • 41
     Enhanced penalty on second or subsequent conviction
  • 42
     Penalty for falsely representing a geographical indication as registered
  • 43
     Penalty for improperly describing a place of business as connected with the Geographical Indications Registry
  • 44
     Penalty for falsification of entries in the register
  • 45
     No offence in certain cases
  • 46
     Forfeiture of goods
  • 47
     Exemption of certain persons employed in ordinary course of business
  • 48
     Procedure where invalidity of registration is pleaded by the accused
  • 49
     Offences by companies
  • 50
     Cognizance of certain offences and the powers of police officer for search and seizure
  • 51
     Costs of defence of prosecution
  • 52
     Limitation of prosecution
  • 53
     Information as to commission of offence
  • 54
     Punishment for abetement in India of acts done out of India

  • MISCELLANEOUS

  • 55
     Protection of action taken in good faith
  • 56
     Certain persons to be public servants
  • 57
     Stay of proceedings where the validity of registration of the geographical indication is questioned etc
  • 58
     Application for rectification of register to be made to Appellate Board in certain cases
  • 59
     Implied warranty on sale of indicated goods
  • 60
     Powers of Registrar
  • 61
     Exercise of discretionary power by Registrar
  • 62
     Evidence before Registrar
  • 63
     Death of party to a proceeding
  • 64
     Extension of time
  • 65
     Abandonment
  • 66
     Suit for infringement, etc., to be instituted before district court
  • 67
     Relief in suit for infringement or for passing off
  • 68
     Authorised user to be impleaded in certain proceedings
  • 69
     Evidence of entries in register, etc., and things done by the Registrar
  • 70
     Registrar and other officers not compellable to produce register, etc
  • 71
     Power to require goods to show indication of origin
  • 72
     Certificate of validity
  • 73
     Groundless threats of legal proceedings
  • 74
     Address for service
  • 75
     Trade usages, etc., to be taken into consideration
  • 76
     Agents
  • 77
     Indexes
  • 78
     Documents open to public inspection
  • 79
     Reports of Registrar to be placed before Parliament
  • 80
     Fees and surcharge
  • 81
     Savings in respect of certain matters in Chapter VIII
  • 82
     Declaration as to title of geographical indication not registrable under the Registration Act, 1908
  • 83
     Government to be bound
  • 84
     Special provisions relating to applications for registration from citizens of convention countries
  • 85
     Provision as to reciprocity
  • 86
     Powers of Central Government to remove difficulties
  • 87
     Power to make rules