Trade Marks Act, 1999
46. Proposed use of trade mark by company to
be formed, etc.-
(1) No application for the registration of a
trade mark in respect of any goods or services shall be refused nor shall
permission for such registration be with held, on the ground only that it
appears that the applicant does not use or propose to use the trade mark if the
Registrar is satisfied that-
(a) a company is about
to be formed and registered under the Companies Act, 1956 (1 of 1956) and that
the applicant intends to assign the trade mark to that company with a view to
the use thereof in relation to those goods or services by the company, or
(b) the proprietor
intends it to be used by a person, as a registered user after the registration
of trade mark.
(2) The provisions of section 47 shall have
effect, in relation to a trade mark registered under the powers conferred by
this sub-section, as if for the reference, in clause 9a) of sub-section (1) of
that section, to the intention on the part of an applicant for registration
that trade mark should be used by him there were substituted a reference to the
intention on his part that it should be used by the company or registered user
concerned.
(3) The tribunal may, in case to which
sub-section (1) applies, require the applicant to give security for the costs
of any proceedings relating to any opposition or appeal, and in default of such
security being duly given, may treat the application as abandoned.
(4) Where in a case to which sub-section (1)
applies, a trade mark in respect of any goods or services is registered in the
name of an applicant who, relies on intention to assign the trade mark to a
company, then, unless within such period as may be prescribed or within such
further period not exceeding six months as the Registrar may , on application
being made to him in the prescribed manner, allow, the company has been
registered as the proprietor of the trade mark in respect of those goods or
services, the registration shall cease of have effect in respect thereof at the
expiration of that period and the Registrar shall amend the register accordingly.