law: Trade Marks Act, 1999  
  28. Rights conferred by registration.- 
  (1) Subject to the other provisions of this
  
  Act, the registration of a trade mark shall, if valid, give to the registered
  
  proprietor of the trade mark the exclusive right to the use of the trade mark
  
  in relation to the goods or service in respect of which the trade mark is
  
  registered and to obtain relief in respect of infringement of the trade mark in
  
  the manner provided by this Act.
  (2) The exclusive right to the use of a trade
  
  mark given under sub-section (1) shall be subject to any conditions and
  
  limitations to which the registration is subject.
  (3) Where two or more persons are registered
  
  proprietors of trade marks, which are identical with or nearly resemble reach
  
  other, the exclusive right to the use of any of those trade marks shall not
  
  (except so far as their respective rights are subject to any conditions or
  
  limitations entered on the register) be deemed to have been acquired by any one
  
  of those persons as against any other of those persons merely by registration
  
  of the trade marks but each of those persons have otherwise the same rights as
  
  against other persons (not being registered proprietor.