Cap 559 s 59 Effect of acquiescence (TRADE MARKS ORDINANCE)

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Chapter:	559	Title:	TRADE MARKS ORDINANCE	Gazette Number:	L.N. 31 of 2003
Section:	59	Heading:	Effect of acquiescence	Version Date:	04/04/2003

Acquiescence in use of registered trade mark

(1) Where the owner of an earlier trade mark or other earlier right has acquiesced for a continuous period of 5 years in the use of a registered trade mark in Hong Kong, being aware of that use, there shall cease to be any entitlement on the basis of that earlier trade mark or other earlier right-

(a) to apply for a declaration that the registration of the later trade mark is invalid; or

(b) to oppose the use of the later trade mark in relation to the goods or services in relation to which it has been so used,

unless the application for registration of the later trade mark was made in bad faith.
(2) Where subsection (1) applies, the owner of the later trade mark is not entitled to oppose the use of the earlier trade mark or the exploitation of the earlier right, as the case may be, notwithstanding that the earlier trade mark or earlier right may no longer be invoked against his later trade mark.