Yes. A registered mark can be cancelled on these grounds:
- Use requirements are not satisfied according to Section VIII.A.
- Rights in an industrial property
- Mark is against moral principles or against public policy
- Use of geographical indication
- Mark is generic/common
- Use of a well-known personal name, pseudonym, facsimile or portrait of a person
- Rights in registered designs
- Rights in trade names
- Registration under a representative’s name like an agent’s name
- Rights in a famous or notorious mark
- Breach of copyright
- Mark is functional
- Mark lacks distinctiveness
- Mark is misleading the consumers or disparaging to image of other parties
- Mark is descriptive of the good’s characteristics or intended purpose
- Proprietary rights
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