Geographical Indications of Goods (Registration and Protection) Act : Rights conferred by registration.

Geographical Indications of Goods (Registration and Protection) Act,1999

Act No : 48

Section : Rights conferred by registration.

21. Rights conferred by registration.-(1) Subject to the other provisions of this Act, the registration of a geographical indication shall, if valid, give,- (a) to the registered proprietor of the geographical indication and the authorised user or users thereof the right to obtain relief in respect of infringement of the geographical indication in the manner provided by this Act; (b) to the authorised user thereof the exclusive right to the use of the geographical indication in relation to the goods in respect of which the geographical indication is registered. (2) The exclusive right to the use of a geographical indication given under clause (b) of sub-section (1) shall be subject to any condition and limitation to which the registration is subject. (3) Where two or more persons are authorised users of geographical indications, which are identical with or nearly resemble each other, the exclusive right to the use of any of those geographical indications shall not (except so far as their respective r ghts are subject to any conditions or limitations entered on the register) be deemed to have been acquired by anyone of those persons as against any other of those persons merely by registration of the geographical indications, but each of those persons as otherwise the same rights as against other persons as he would have if he were the sole authorised user.