A registration might be cancelled for any of these grounds:
- Lack of genuine use
- Incompatible with moral principles and public policy
- Use of geographical indication
- Generic mark or common terms
- Conflict with a personal name
- Conflict with registered designs
- Conflict with trade names
- Mark was registered under a representative’s name
- Use of protected flags, emblems or armorial bearing
- Conflict with a well-known or notorious mark
- Proprietary right
- Breach of copyright
- Descriptive, non-distinctive, functional, or misleading/disparaging/deceptive mark
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