Trade Marks Act, 1999
57. Power to cancel or vary registration and
to rectify the register .-
(1) On application made in the prescribed
manner to the Appellate Board or to the Registrar by any person aggrieved, the
tribunal may make such order as it may think fit for canceling or varying the
registration of a trade mark on the ground of any contravention, or failure to
observe a condition entered on the register in relation thereto.
(2) Any person aggrieved by the absence or
omission from the register of any entry, or by any entry made in the register
without sufficient cause, or by any entry wrongly remaining on the register, or
by any error or defect in any entry in the register, may apply in the
prescribed manner to the Appellate Board or to the Registrar, and the tribunal
may make such order for making, expunging or varying the entry as it may think
fit.
(3) The tribunal may in any proceeding under
this section decide any question that may be necessary or expedient to decide
in connection with the rectification of the register.
(4) The tribunal, of its own motion, may,
after giving notice in the prescribed manner to the parties concerned and after
giving them an opportunity, of being heard, make any order referred to in
sub-section (1) or sub-section.
(5) Any order of the Appellate Board
rectifying the register shall direct that notice of the rectification shall be
served upon the Registrar in the prescribed manner who shall upon receipt of
such notice rectify the register accordingly.