Trade Marks Act, 1963
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Saving for use of name, address or description of goods. |
16.—No registration of a trade mark shall interfere with— | |
(a) any bona fide use by a person of his own name or of the name of his place of business, or of the name, or of the name of the place of business, of any of his predecessors in business; or | ||
(b) the use by any person of any bona fide description of the character or quality of his goods, not being a description that would be likely to be taken as importing any such reference as is mentioned in paragraph (b) of subsection (1) of section 12 , or in paragraph (b) of subsection (3) of section 45 , of this Act. |