Trade Marks Ordinance, 2001

AN ORDINANCE

  

CHAPTER  I

PRELIMINARY

 

1. Short title, extent and commencement

2. Definitions

3. Goods and services when associated, etc

4. Reference to use of a trade mark, etc

5. Decision by tribunal regarding use of a trade mark

6. Application of other laws not barred

 

 

CHAPTER  II

REGISTRAR, TRADE MARKS REGISTRY AND REGISTRATION OF TRADE MARKS

 

7.  Appointment of Registrar and other officers

8. Power of Registrar to review, withdraw or transfer cases

9. Trade Marks Registry and branches thereof

10. Register of Trade Marks

11. Evidence of entries in Register and things done by Registrar

12. Classification of goods and services

13. Publication of an alphabetical index of classification of goods and services

14. Absolute grounds for refusal of registration

15. Limitation as to colour

16. Use of names of chemical compounds barred

17. Relative grounds for refusal of registration

18. Meaning of "earlier trade mark"

19. Raising of relative grounds in case of honest concurrent use

20. Registration of parts of trade marks and of trade marks as a series

21. Registration subject to disclaimer

 

 

CHAPTER III

PROCEDURE FOR, AND DURATION OF, REGISTRATION

 

22. Application for registration

23. Date of filing

24. Co-ownership of trade mark

25. Meaning of Convention application, and right to priority

26. Application to provide temporary protection during exhibition

27. Examination of application

28. Publication, opposition proceedings and observations

29. Grounds of opposition

30. Circumstances in which opposition may proceed in the name of a person other than the person who filed the notice of opposition

31. Withdrawal of application

32. Definition of divisional application

33. Registration

34. Duration and renewal of registration

35. Renewal of registration

36. Effect of removal from Register for failure to pay fee for renewal

37. Alteration of registered trade mark

38. Surrender of registered trade mark

 

 

CHAPTER IV

REGISTRATION AND EFFECT THEREOF

 

39. Rights conferred by registration

40. Infringement of registered trade mark

41. Infringement of trade mark by breach of certain restrictions

42. When a trade mark is not infringed

43. Registration to be prima facie evidence of validity

44. Registration to be conclusive as to validity after five years

45. Saving for words used as name or description of an article or a substance

 

CHAPTER V

INFRINGEMENT PROCEEDINGS

 

46. Action for infringement

47. Order for erasure of offending mark

48. Order for delivery up of infringing goods, material or articles

49. Meaning of "infringing goods, material or articles"

50. Period after which remedy of delivery be not available

51. Order as to disposal of infringing goods, material or articles

52. Remedy for groundless threats of infringement proceedings

 

 

CHAPTER VI

IMPORTATION OF INFRINGING GOODS, MATERIAL OR ARTICLES

 

53. Infringing goods, material or articles may be treated as prohibited

54. Notice for intervention by customs authorities

55. Furnishing of security or equivalent assurance to customs authority

56. Collector of Customs may seize goods bearing infringing trade mark

57. Notice of seizure

58. Forfeiture of goods

59. Release of goods

60. Action for infringement against importation of infringing goods

61. Action for infringement by licensee in relation to any seized goods

62. Disposal of forfeited goods

63. Power of the Collector of Customs to retain control of goods

64. Insufficient security

65. The Federal Government not be liable to loss, etc., suffered because of seizure

66. Power of the Collector of Customs to make regulations

 

 

CHAPTER VII

UNFAIR COMPETITION AND COMPARATIVE ADVERTISEMENT

 

67. Definition of unfair competition and provisions relating thereto

68. Misleading and comparative advertisement

 

CHAPTER VIII

ASSIGNMENT AND TRANSMISSION

 

69. Assignment of registered trade mark

70. Registration of transactions affecting registered trade mark

71. Application for registration of trade mark as an object of property

 

CHAPTER IX

USE OF TRADE MARKS AND LICENSEES

 

72. Proposed use of trade mark by company to be formed

73. Revocation of registration

74. Use of trade mark by a person other than the proprietor thereof

75. Licensing of registered trade mark

76. Exclusive license defined

77. General provisions as to the rights of licensees in case of infringement

78. Exclusive licensee having rights and remedies of assignee

79. Surrender of registered trade mark

80. Grounds for invalidity of registration

81. Effect of acquiescence

82. Collective marks

83. Certification marks

84. Domain names

 

CHAPTER X

THE PARIS CONVENTION

 

85. Meaning of  “Paris Convention” and “Convention country”

86. Protection of well known trade mark

87. National emblems of Convention countries

88. Emblems of certain international organizations

89. Notification under Article 6ter of the Paris Convention

90. Acts of agent or representative

91. Nature of goods or services to which a mark is to be applied

92. Trade name

 

CHAPTER XI

SPECIAL PROVISIONS FOR TEXTILE GOODS

 

93. Textile goods

94. Restrictions on registration of textile goods

95. Advisory Committees

 

CHAPTER XII

RECTIFICATION AND CORRECTION OF THE REGISTER

 

96. Rectification or correction of Register

97. Adoption of entries to new classification

 

 

CHAPTER XIII

OFFENCES, PENALTIES AND PROCEDURE

 

98. Meaning of applying a trade description

99. Penalty for applying false trade description, etc

100. Enhanced penalty on second or subsequent convictions

101. Penalty for falsification of entries in Register

102. Penalty for falsely representing a trade mark as registered

103. Restraint of use of Government Arms and State emblems

104. Offences by companies

105. Powers to award compensation for offenses

106. Punishment of abetment in Pakistan of acts done out of Pakistan

107. Penalty for improperly describing a place of business as connected with the Trade Marks Registry

 

CHAPTER XIV

MISCELLANEOUS AND GENERAL PROVISIONS

 

108. Power of Registrar to require use of forms

109. Information about applications and registered trade marks

110. Costs, security for costs and fine

111. Procedure before the Registrar

112. Certificate of validity of contested registration

113. Registrar's appearance in proceedings involving the Register

114. Appeal against the decision of the Registrar

115. Procedure before the Federal Government

116. Procedure in certain cases of option to apply to a Court or the Registrar

117. Suits for infringement to be instituted before District Court

118. Costs of Registrar in proceedings before a Court

119. Burden of proving use of trade mark

120. Certain persons to be public servants

121. Documents open to public inspection

122. Death of a party to any proceedings under this Ordinance

123. Extension of time

124. Registrar and other officers not compellable to produce Register, etc

125. Power to require goods to show indication of origin

126. Address for service

127. Trade mark agents

128. Fees

129. The Federal Government  and a Provincial Government to be bound

130. Power to make reciprocal arrangements with any other Government

131. Power of  High Court to make rules

132. Power of the Federal Government to make rules

133. Transitional

134. Repeal and savings

 

THE FIRST SCHEDULE

1. General

2. Signs of which a collective mark may consist

3. Indication of geographical origin

4. Collective mark not to be misleading as to character or significance

5. Regulations governing use of collective mark

6. Approval of regulations by the Registrar

7. Procedure of acceptance or refusal of application

8. Regulations to be published

9. Regulations to be open to inspection

10. Amendment of regulations

11. Infringement of rights of authorized user

12. Infringement of a registered collective mark

13. Additional grounds for revocation of registration

14. Additional grounds for invalidity of registration

 

THE SECOND SCHEDULE

1. General

2. Signs of which certification mark may consist

3. Indication of geographical origin

4. Nature of proprietor's business

5. Certification mark not to be misleading as to character or significance

6. Regulations governing use of certification mark

7. Approval of regulations by the Registrar

8. Procedure for acceptance or refusal of application

9. Regulations to be published

10. Regulations to be open to inspection

11. Amendment of regulations

12. Consent to assignment of registered certification mark

13. Infringement of rights of authorised user

14. Court to take into account loss suffered by authorised users

15. Additional grounds for revocation of registration

16. Additional grounds for invalidity of registration

 

THIRD SCHEDULE

1. General

2. Requirements for registration

3. Indication of geographical origin

4. Domain name not to be misleading as to character or significance

5. Procedure for acceptance, opposition and registration

6. Term of registration and renewal

7. Provisions of section 73 not to apply to domain names

8. Rules

 

THE FOURTH SCHEDULE

1. Introductory

2. Existing registered trade mark

3. Disclaimer, limitations and conditions

4. Effect of infringement

5. Infringing goods, material and articles

6. Rights and remedies of licensee or authorised user

7. Co-ownership of registered trade mark

8. Assignment of registered trade mark

9. Licensing of registered trade mark

10. Pending applications for registration

11. Conversion of pending application

12. Trade marks registered accordingly to old classification

13. Claim to priority from overseas application

14. Duration and renewal of registration

15. Pending application for alteration of registered trade mark

16. Revocation for non-use

17. Application for rectification

18. Regulations as to use of certification mark