Trade Marks Act, 1999
24. Jointly owned trade marks.-
(1) Save as provided in sub-section (2),
nothing in this Act shall authorize the registration of two or more persons who
use a trade mark independently, or propose so to use it, as joint proprietors
thereof.
(2) Where the relations between two or more
persons interested in a trade mark are such that no one of them is entitled as
between himself and the other or others of them to use it except-
(a) on behalf of both
or all of them, or
(b) in relation to an
article or service with which both or all of them are connected in the course
of trade.
Those persons may be registered as joint
proprietors of the trade mark, and this Act shall have effect in relation to
any rights to the use of the trade mark vested in those persons as if those
rights had been vested in a single person.