Trade Marks Act, 1999
101. Meaning of applying trade marks and trade
descriptions.-
(1) A person shall be deemed to apply a trade
mark or mark or trade description to goods or services who –
(a) applies it to the
goods themselves or use it in relation to services, or
(b) applies it to any
package in or with which the goods are sold, or exposed for sale, or had in
possession for sale or for any purpose of trade or manufacture, or
(c) places, encloses
or annexes any good which are sold, or exposed for sale, or had in possession
of sale or for any purpose of trade or manufacture, in or with any package or
other thing to which a trade mark or mark or trade description has been applied
, or
(d) uses a trade mark
or mark trade description in any manner reasonably likely to lead to the belief
that the goods or services in connection with which it is used are designated
or described by that trade mark or mark or trade description , or
(e) in relation to the
goods or services uses a trade mark or trade description in any sign,
advertisement, invoice, catalogue, business letter, business paper, price list
or other commercial document and goods are delivered or services are rendered
to a person in pursuance of a request or order made by reference to the trade
mark or trade description as so used.
(2) A trade mark or mark or trade description
shall be deemed to be applied to goods whether it is woven in, impressed on, or
otherwise worked into, or annexed or affixed to, the goods or to any package or
other thing.