law: Trade Marks Act, 1999  
  133. Preliminary advice by the Registrar as to
  
  distinctiveness.- 
  (1) The Registrar may, on application made to
  
  him in the prescribed manner by any person who proposes to apply for the
  
  registration of a trade mark, give advice as to whether the trade mark appears
  
  to him prima facie to be distinctive.
  (2) If, on an application for the registration
  
  of a trade mark as to which the Registrar has given advice as aforesaid in the
  
  affirmative made with three months after the advice was given, the Registrar,
  
  after further investigation or consideration, gives notice to the applicant of
  
  objection on the ground that the trade mark is not distinctive the applicant
  
  shall be entitled, on giving notice of withdrawal of the application within the
  
  prescribed period, to have repaid to him any fee paid on the filing of the
  
  application.