BADAR DURREZ AHMED, J

1. The petitioner, Rajinder Kumar Aggarwal, is the proprietor of Aggarwal Sweets India, a shop selling sweets and namkeens at 24, West Patel Nagar, New Delhi. The respondent No.2 is the Aggarwal Sweet Corner at 3/33, Double Story, Tilak Nagar, New Delhi which is the trading concern of Shri Ashok Kumar Aggarwal and Shri Vinod Kumar Aggarwal. The petitioner is aggrieved by the dismissal of his appeal by the Intellectual Property Appellate Board by its order dated 09.09.2004. The effect of the dismissal of the appeal is that the orders passed by the Assistant Registrar, rejecting the opposition filed by the petitioner to the registration of the trademarks AGGARWAL and AGGARWAL SWEET CORNER under application Nos 453308B and 453309 were confirmed. Consequently, the respondent No.2 was entitled to the registration of the marks AGGARWAL and AGGARWAL SWEET CORNER. Of course, the latter trademark contained a disclaimer to the effect that it shall give no right to the exclusive use of the words “SWEET CORNER”.

.2. According to the petitioner, the word AGGARWAL cannot be registered as a trademark unless distinctiveness is established on the part of the applicant.