law: Geographical Indications of Goods (Registration and Protection) Act, 1999
  14. Opposition to
  
  registration.-
  
  1.  Any
  
  person may, within three months from the date of advertisement or
  
  re-advertisement of an application for registration or within such further
  
  period, not exceeding one month, in the aggregate, as the Registrar, on application
  
  made to him in such manner and on payment of such fee as may be prescribed
  
  allows, give notice in writing in the prescribed manner to the Registrar, of
  
  opposition to the registration.
  2.  The
  
  Registrar shall serve a copy of the notice on the applicant for registration
  
  and, within two months from the receipt by the applicant of such copy of the
  
  notice of opposition, the applicant shall sent to the Registrar in the
  
  prescribed manner a counter-statement of the grounds on which he relies for his
  
  application, and if he does not do so, he shall be deemed to have abandoned his
  
  application.
  3.  If
  
  the applicant sends such counter-statement, the Registrar shall serve a copy
  
  thereof on the person giving notice of opposition.
  4.    Any
  
  evidence upon which the opponent and the applicant may rely shall be submitted
  
  in such manner and within the such time as may be prescribed to the Registrar,
  
  and the Registrar shall give an opportunity to them to be heard, if they so
  
  desire.
  5.  The
  
  Registrar shall, after hearing the parties, if so required, and considering the
  
  evidence, decide whether and subject to what conditions or limitations, if any,
  
  the registration is to be permitted, and may take into account a ground of
  
  objection w ether relied upon by the opponent or not.
  6.  
  
    Where
  
  a person giving notice of opposition or an applicant sending a counter-
  
  statement after receipt of a copy of such notice neither resides nor carries on
  
  business in India, the Registrar may require him to give security for the costs
  
  of proceeding before him, and in default of such security being duly given, may
  
  treat the opposition or application, as the case may be, as abandoned.
  7.  
  
    The
  
  Registrar may, on request, permit correction of any error in, or any amendment
  
  of, a notice of opposition or a counter-statement on such terms as he thinks
  
  just.