57. Power to cancel or vary registration and to rectify the register.—(1) On application made in
the prescribed manner to the Appellate Board or to the Registrar by any person aggrieved, the tribunal
may make such order as it may think fit for cancelling or varying the registration of a trade mark on the
ground of any contravention, or failure to observe a condition entered on the register in relation thereto.
(2) Any person aggrieved by the absence or omission from the register of any entry, or by any entry
made in the register without sufficient cause, or by any entry wrongly remaining on the register, or by any
error or defect in any entry in the register, may apply in the prescribed manner to the Appellate Board or
to the Registrar, and the tribunal may make such order for making, expunging or varying the entry as it
may think fit.
(3) The tribunal may in any proceeding under this section decide any question that may be necessary
or expedient to decide in connection with the rectification of the register.
(4) The tribunal, of its own motion, may, after giving notice in the prescribed manner to the parties
concerned and after giving them an opportunity of being heard, make any order referred to in
sub-section (1) or sub-section (2).
(5) Any order of the Appellate Board rectifying the register shall direct that notice of the rectification
shall be served upon the Registrar in the prescribed manner who shall upon receipt of such notice rectify
the register accordingly.
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58. Correction of register.—(1) The Registrar may, on application made in the prescribed manner
by the registered proprietor,—
(a) correct any error in the name, address or description of the registered proprietor of a trade
mark, or any other entry relating to the trade mark;
(b) enter any change in the name, address or description of the person who is registered as
proprietor of a trade mark;
(c) cancel the entry of a trade mark on the register;
(d) strike out any goods or classes of goods or services from those in respect of which a trade
mark is registered,
and may make any consequential amendment or alteration in the certificate of registration, and for that
purpose, may require the certificate of registration to be produced to him.
(2) The Registrar may, on application made in the prescribed manner by a registered user of a trade
mark, and after notice to the registered proprietor, correct any error, or enter any change, in the name,
address or description of the registered user.
59. Alteration of registered trade marks.—(1) The registered proprietor of a trade mark may apply
in the prescribed manner to the Registrar for leave to add to or alter the trade mark in any manner not
substantially affecting the identity thereof, and the Registrar may refuse leave or may grant it on such
terms and subject to such limitations as he may think fit.
(2) The Registrar may cause an application under this section to be advertised in the prescribed
manner in any case where it appears to him that it is expedient so to do, and where he does so, if within
the prescribed time from the date of the advertisement any person gives notice to the Registrar in the
prescribed manner of opposition to the application, the Registrar shall, after hearing the parties if so
required, decide the matter.
(3) Where leave is granted under this section, the trade mark as altered shall be advertised in the
prescribed manner, unless the application has already been advertised under sub-section (2).
60. Adaptation of entries in register to amended or substituted classification of goods or
services.—(1) The Registrar shall not make any amendment of the register which would have the effect
of adding any goods or classes of goods or services to those in respect of which a trade mark is registered
(whether in one or more classes) immediately before the amendment is to be made or of antedating the
registration of a trade mark in respect of any goods or services:
Provided that this sub-section, shall not apply when the Registrar is satisfied that compliance
therewith would involve undue complexity and that the addition or antedating, as the case may be, would
not affect any substantial quantity of goods or services and would not substantially prejudice the rights of
any person.
(2) A proposal so to amend the register shall be brought to the notice of the registered proprietor of
the trade mark affected and advertised in the prescribed manner, and may be opposed before the Registrar
by any person aggrieved on the ground that the proposed amendment contravenes the provisions of
sub-section (1).