C. HARI SHANKAR
Bennet, Coleman And Company Limited – Appellant
Versus
Vnow Technologies Private Limited – Respondent
JUDGMENT :
1. This rectification petition, under Section 57,[57. Power to cancel or vary registration and to rectify the register. –
(1) On application made in the prescribed manner to the High Court or to the Registrar by any person aggrieved, the Registrar or the High Court, as the case may be, 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 High Court or to the Registrar, and the Registrar or the High Court, as the case may be, may make such order for making, expunging or varying the entry as it may think fit.] of the Trade Marks Act 1999, was initially filed before the learned Intellectual Property Appellate Board (the learned IP
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