Geographical Indications Act 2014 · 2020 Revised Edition · Part 5 · Registration of Geographical Indications
47. Withdrawal or amendment of application
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The applicant may at any time withdraw the applicant’s application for registration of a geographical indication.
geographical indication
“geographical indication” means any indication used in trade to identify goods as originating from a place, provided that —(a)the place is a qualifying country or a region or locality in a qualifying country; and(b)a given quality, reputation or other characteristic of the goods is essentially attributable to that place;
An application for registration of a geographical indication may be amended, at the request of the applicant, only by amending —
the name or other particular of the applicant;
errors of wording or of copying; or
obvious mistakes,and then only where the amendment does not substantially affect the identity of the geographical indication.
Subsection (2) is subject to the rules mentioned in section 84(2)(ea).