Trade Marks Act, 1999
5. Trade Marks Registry and officers
thereof.-
(1) For the purposes of this Act, there shall
be a trade marks registry and the Trade Marks Registry established under the
Trade and Merchandise Marks Act, 1958 (43 of 1958) shall be the Trade Marks
Registry under this Act.
The head office of the Trade Marks Registry
shall be at such place as the Central Government may specify, and for the
purpose of facilitating the registration of trade marks, there may be
established at such places as the Central Government may think fit branch
offices of the Trade Marks Registry.
The Central Government may, by notification in
the Official Gazette, define the territorial limits within which an office of
the Trade Marks Registry may exercise its functions.
(4) There shall be a seal of the Trade Mark
Registry.