Registrations can be cancelled on these grounds:
- Proprietary rights
- Descriptive marks
- Not distinctive marks
- Misleading, deceptive or disparaging marks
- Functional marks
- Breach of copyright
- Conflict with a well-known mark
- Use of protected armorial bearings, state emblems and flags
- Conflict with trade names that might confuse the public mind
- Conflict with a registered design
- Conflict with popular personal names
- Generic marks or commonly used
- Use of geographical indications
- Issues against morality or public order
- Use of name, picture, or reputation of a person of authority
- Use of name of style of a company
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