702. Registration to be conclusive after 7 years
In all legal proceedings relating to a registered trade mark the original registration of such trade mark shall after the expiration of 7 years from the date of such original registration (or 7 years from the commencement of this Code, whichever shall last happen) be taken to be valid in all respects unless such original registration was obtained by fraud, or unless the trade mark offends against the provisions of article 675 of this Code:
Provided that nothing herein shall entitle the proprietor of a registered trade mark to interfere with or restrain the user by any person of a similar trade mark upon or in connection with goods or services upon or in connection with which such person has, by himself or herself or his or her predecessors in business continuously used such trade mark from a date anterior to the user of the first-mentioned trade mark by the proprietor or his or her predecessor in business, or to object (on such user being proved) to such person being put upon the register for such similar trade mark in respect of such goods in case of concurrent user.
(Amended by Act 14 of 1989)