52. User of name, address or description of goods or services
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No registration of a trade mark shall interfere with —
trade mark
“trade mark” means —(a)except in relation to a defensive or a certification trade mark, a mark used or proposed to be used in relation to goods or services for the purpose of indicating or so as to indicate, a connection in the course of trade between the goods or services and a person who has the right, either as proprietor or as registered user, to use the mark, whether with or without an indication of the identity of that person;(b)in relation to a defensive trade mark, a mark registered under section 41; and(c)in relation to a certification trade mark, a mark registered under section 68;
any bona fide use by a person of his own name or of the name of his place of business, or of the name or of the name of the place of business, of any of his predecessors in business; or
the use by any person of any bona fide description of the character or quality of his goods or services, not being a description that would be likely to be taken as importing any such reference as is mentioned in section 45(1)(b) or 68(2)(b).