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(a) Trade Marks Act (V of 1940)--- ----Ss.37 & 38---Application of section 37 is excluded in respect of cases covered by section 38---Grounds on which an aggrieved party could apply for taking off a registered trade mark from the register detailed. Section 37 of the Trade Marks Act, 1940 is subject to section 38 which provides for defensive registration of well-known trade marks. The applicability of section 37 is excluded in respect of cases covered by section 38. Section 37 specifies the following grounds on which an aggrieved party can apply for taking off a registered trade mark from the register: (1) (a) the applicant for registration has obtained registration without any bona fide intention to use it in relation to the goods, and (b) there has been no bona fide use of the trade mark in relation to those goods up to a date one month before the date of filing the application under section 37. (2) For a continuous period of five years or longer up to one month prior to filing the application under section 37 during which the trade mark was registered there was no bona fide use of the trade mark in relation to the goods for which it was registered. An application under section 37 can be filed by an aggrieved party. (b) Trade Marks Act (V of 1940)--­- ---S.37---Term "person aggrieved"---Explained. In section 37.Trade Marks Act, 1940 the term "person aggrieved" should be given a liberal interpretation. Any person interested in mark if obstructed or restricted by any registered mark will be an aggrieved person. Present injury may be shown to have been suffered by an aggrieved person, but if he demonstrates probability of prevention or adverse effect on extension of trade he will have a locus standi as a person aggrieved. Any person who is substantially interested in taking off the mark from the register and persons who are substantially prejudiced or damaged by the existence of a mark will fall in the category of person aggrieved Benazir Bhutto's case P L D 1988 SC 416, 560; In re: Powell's Trade Mark (1884) 11 R.P.C. 4; Appliers Co.'s Trade Mark 8 R.P.C. 137; Zonophone's T.M. (1903) 20 R.P.C. 450; Gianacli's T.M. (1889) 6 R.P.C. 467; Pink v. JA. Sharwood…

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