law: Geographical Indications of Goods (Registration and Protection) Act, 1999
  73. Groundless
  
  threats of legal proceedings.-
  1.  Where
  
  a person, by means of circulars, advertisements or otherwise, threatens a
  
  person with an action or proceeding for infringement of a geographical
  
  indication which is registered, or alleged by the firs -mentioned person to be
  
  registered, or with some other like proceeding, a person aggrieved may, whether
  
  the person making the threats is or is not the registered proprietor or the
  
  authorised user of the geographical indication, bring a suit against the first-mentioned
  
  person and may obtain a declaration to the effect that the threats are
  
  unjustifiable, and an injunction against the continuance of the threats and may
  
  recover such damages (if any) as he has sustained, unless the first-mentioned
  
  person satisfies the court that the geographical indication is registered and
  
  that the acts in respect of which the proceedings were threatened, constitute,
  
  or, if done, would constitute, an infringement of the geographical indication.
  2.  The
  
  last preceding sub-section does not apply if the registered proprietor of the
  
  geographical indication or an authorised user thereof with due diligence
  
  commences and prosecutes an action against the person threatened for
  
  infringement of the geographical indication.
  3.  Nothing
  
  in this section shall render a legal practitioner or a registered geographical
  
  indications agent liable to an action under this section in respect of an act
  
  done by him in his professional capacity on behalf of a client.
  4.    A
  
  suit under sub-section (1) shall not be instituted in any court inferior to a
  
  district court.