TRADE MARKS ACT
mark, the Tribunal or the Registrar may refuse an
application made under paragraph (a) or (b) in
relation to any goods or services, if it is shown that
there has been, before the relevant date or during the
relevant period, as the case may be, bona fide use of
the trade mark by any proprietor thereof for the time
being in relation to goods or services of the same
description, being goods or services in respect of
which the trade mark is registered.
(2) Where, in relation to any goods or services in
respect of which a trade mark is registered—
(a) the matters referred to in paragraph (b) of
subsection (1) are shown so far as regards
non-use of the trade mark in relation to—
(i) goods to be sold or otherwise traded in in
a particular place in Zimbabwe, otherwise than for export from Zimbabwe; or
(ii) goods to be exported to a particular
market outside Zimbabwe; or
(iii) services to be performed in Zimbabwe;
and
(b) a person has been permitted under subsection
(2) of section fifteen to register an identical or
nearly resembling trade mark in respect of
those goods or services under a registration extending to use in relation to—
(i) goods to be sold or otherwise traded in in
that place, otherwise than for export
from Zimbabwe; or
(ii) goods to be exported to that market; or
(iii) services to be performed in that place;
or the Tribunal or the Registrar is of the
opinion that he might properly be permitted so
to register such a trade mark;
on application by that person to the Tribunal or, at
the option of the applicant and subject to section
seventy-seven, to the Registrar, the Tribunal or the
Registrar may impose on the registration of the firstmentioned trade mark such limitations as the Tribunal or the Registrar thinks right for securing that that
registration shall cease to extend to such use as last
aforesaid.
(3) An applicant shall not be entitled to rely, for
the purposes of paragraph (b) of subsection (1) or for
the purposes of subsection (2), on any non-use of a
trade mark that is shown to have been due to special
circumstances in the trade and not to any intention
not to use or to abandon the trade mark in relation to
the goods or services to which the application relates.
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mentioned goods or services, be registered in Part D
of the Register in his name in respect of those other
goods or services as a defensive trade mark and,
while so registered, shall not be
32 Defensive registration of well known trade
marks
(1) Where a trade mark registered in Part A of the
Register has become so well known as respects any
goods or services in respect of which it has been used
that the use thereof in relation to other goods or
services would be likely to be taken as indicating a
connection in the course of trade between those goods
or services and a person entitled to use the trade mark
in relation to the first-mentioned goods or services,
then, notwithstanding that the proprietor registered in
respect of the first-mentioned goods or services does
not use or propose to use that trade mark in relation
to those other goods or services and notwithstanding
anything in section thirty-one, the trade mark may,
on the application in writing in the prescribed manner
of the proprietor registered in respect of the first99
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