Trade Marks Act, 1999
112. Exemption of certain persons employed in
ordinary course of business.-
Where a person accused of an offence under
section 103 proves.-
(a) That in the ordinary course of his
business he is employed on behalf of other persons to apply trade marks or
trade descriptions, or as the case may be, to make dies, blocks, machine,
plates, or other instruments for making,
or being used in making, trade marks, and
(b) that in the case which is the subject of
the charge he was so employed, and was not interested in the goods or other
thing by way of profit or commission dependent on the sale goods or providing
of services, as the case may be, and
(c) that , having taken all reasonable
precautions against committing the offence charged, he had, at the time of the
commission of the alleged offence, no reason to suspect the genuineness of the
trade mark or trade description, and
(d) that, on demand made by or on behalf of
the prosecutor, he gave all the information in his power with respect to the
person on whose behalf the trade mark or trade description was applied.