law: Geographical Indications of Goods (Registration and Protection) Act, 1999
  57. Stay of
  
  proceedings where the validity of registration of the geographical indication
  
  is questioned, etc.-
  1.  Where
  
  in any suit for infringement of a geographical indication the defendant pleads
  
  that registration of the geographical indication relating to plaintiff is
  
  invalid, the court trying the suit (hereinafter referred to as the court),
  
  shall,-
  a.   if any proceedings
  
  for rectification of the register to the geographical indication relating to
  
  plaintiff or defendant are pending before the Registrar or the Appellate Board,
  
  stay the suit pending the final disposal of such proceedings;
  b.   if no such
  
  proceedings are pending and the court is satisfied that the plea regarding the
  
  invalidity of the registration of the geographical indication relating to
  
  plaintiff or defendant is prima facie tenable, raise an issue regarding the
  
  same and adjourn the case for a period of three months from the date of the
  
  framing of the issue in order to enable the party concerned to apply to the
  
  Appellate Board for rectification of the register.
  1.  
  2.  If
  
  the party concerned proves to the court that he has made any such application
  
  as is referred to in clause (b) of sub-section (1) within the time specified
  
  therein or within such extended time as the court may for sufficient cause
  
  allow, the trial f the suit shall stand stayed until the final disposal of the
  
  rectification proceedings.
  3.  If
  
  no such application as aforesaid has been made within the time so specified or
  
  within such extended time as the court may allow, the issue as to the validity
  
  of the registration of the geographical indication concerned shall be deemed to
  
  have been abandoned and the court shall proceed with the suit in regard to the
  
  other issues in the case.
  4.    The
  
  final order made in any rectification proceedings referred to in sub-section
  
  (1) or sub-section (2) shall be binding upon the parties and the court shall
  
  dispose of the suit conformably to such order in so far as it relates to the
  
  issue as to the validity of the registration of the geographical indication.
  5.  The
  
  stay of a suit for the infringement of a geographical indication under this
  
  section shall not preclude the court from making any interlocutory order
  
  including any order granting an injunction, directing account to be kept,
  
  appointing a receiver r attaching any property), during the period of the stay
  
  of the suit.