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Trade Marks Act 1999

The definition and functions of a mark, absolute and relative grounds of refusal, registration, assignment and licensing, infringement and passing off. International registration under the Madrid Protocol (Chapter IVA, ss. 36A-36G) came in by the 2010 amendment and is outlined rather than stated section by section; so are non-conventional marks, where the practice has moved ahead of the text.

The sections below are the ones the LL.B. papers examine on this Act, with the unit that covers each and the cases decided on it. The official text is on India Code ↗.