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Relevant Acts and provisions
Trade Marks Act, 1940
Provisions considered: Sections 8(a) and 10(1) of the Trade Marks Act, 1940, on refusal of registration of deceptively similar marks.
Brief facts
Shangrila Food Products applied to register a mark for biscuits. Corn Products Refining Co., the registered proprietor of a similar mark for glucose powder with vitamins, opposed the application, contending that the marks were deceptively similar and that biscuits and glucose preparations were goods of the same description likely to be associated by the public with a common trade origin.
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Keywords
Deceptive Similarity Goods Of Same Description Opposition Reputation Of Mark Trade Connection
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