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Code Of Intellectual Property Act (No. 52 of 1979) - Sect 104

Temporary protection of mark exhibited at international exhibition

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(1) An applicant for registration of a mark who has exhibited goods bearing the mark or rendered services under the mark at an official or officially recognized international exhibition and who applies for registration of the mark within six months from the date on which the goods bearing the mark or services under the mark were first exhibited or rendered at such exhibition shall, on request, be deemed to have applied for registration of that mark on the date on which the goods bearing the mark or the services rendered under the mark were first exhibited or rendered at such exhibition.
(2) Evidence of the exhibition of the goods bearing the . mark or the services rendered under the mark shall be by a certificate issued by the competent authority of the exhibition stating the date on which the mark was first used at such exhibition in connection with such goods or services.
(3) The provisions of subsections (1) and (2) shall not extend any other period of priority claimed by the applicant.


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