Revised Laws of Saint Lucia (2021)

72.   Amendment or cancellation—other specified grounds

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    (1)   Subject to subsection (2) and section 73, the High Court may, on the application of an aggrieved person, order that the Register be rectified by—

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      (a)     cancelling the registration of a trade mark;

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      (b)     removing or amending an entry wrongly made or remaining on the Register; or

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      (c)     entering any condition or limitation affecting the registration of a trade mark that ought to be entered.

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    (2)   An application, referred to in subsection (1), may be made on any of the following grounds—

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      (a)     any of the grounds on which the registration of the trade mark could have been opposed under Division 2 of Part 5;

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      (b)     an amendment of the application for the registration of the trade mark was obtained as a result of fraud, false suggestion or misrepresentation;

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      (c)     because of the circumstances applying at the time when the application for rectification is filed, the use of the trade mark is likely to deceive or cause confusion for a reason other than one for which—

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        (i)     the application for the registration of the trade mark could have been rejected under section 27 or 28, or

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        (ii)     the registration of the trade mark could have been opposed under section 44;

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      (d)     the following circumstances apply—

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        (i)     the Registrar accepted the application for the registration of the trade mark because he or she was satisfied, having regard to the extent to which the trade mark was inherently adapted to distinguish the goods or services of the applicant for registration from the goods or services of any other person and the intended use of the trade mark, that the trade mark would distinguish those goods or services as being those of the applicant,

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        (ii)     the application for rectification is made at least 10 years after the filing date, or

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        (iii)     in the intervening period, the trade mark has not been used to an extent sufficient for it to distinguish, in fact, the goods or services of the registered owner from the goods or services of any other person;

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      (e)     the application is in respect of an entry in the Register and the entry was made, or has been previously amended, as a result of fraud, false suggestion or misrepresentation.