Cancellation against registration is possible on the following grounds:
- Marks is disparaging to a person’s dignity
- Bad faith
- Prohibited marks
- Mark is used in a deceptive or misleading manner
- Mark uses a protected badge or emblem
- Mark contradicts moral standards or opposes public order
- Geographical indication
- Mark uses a protected armorial bearing, flag or state emblem
- Generic or too common marks
- Functional, misleading, deceptive, disparaging, non-distinctive, or descriptive marks
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