law: Geographical Indications of Goods (Registration and Protection) Act, 1999
  2. Definitions and
  
  interpretation.-
  
  1.  In
  
  this Act, unless the context otherwise requires,-
  a.   "Appellate
  
  Board" means the Appellate Board established under section 83 of the Trade
  
  Marks Act, 1999;
  b.   "authorised
  
  user" means the authorised user of a geographical indication registered
  
  under section 17;
  c.   "deceptively
  
  similar" A geographical indication shall be deemed to be deceptively
  
  similar to another geographical indication if it so nearly resembles that other
  
  geographical indication as to be likely to deceive or cause confusion;
  d.   "district
  
  court" has the meaning assigned to it in the Code of Civil Procedure, 1908
  
  (5 of 1908);
  e.   "geographical
  
  indication", in relation to goods, means an indication which identifies
  
  such goods as agricultural goods, natural goods or manufactured goods as
  
  originating, or manufactured in the territory of a country, or a region or
  
  locality in that territory, where a given quality, reputation or other
  
  characteristic of such goods is essentially attributable to its geographical
  
  origin and in case where such goods are manufactured goods one of the
  
  activities of either the production or of processing r preparation of the goods
  
  concerned takes place in such territory, region or locality, as the case may
  
  be.
  Explanation.- For the purposes of
  
  this clause, any name which is not the name of a country, region or locality of
  
  that country shall also be considered as the geographical indication if it
  
  relates to a specific geographical area and is used upon or in relation to
  
  particular goods originating from that country, region or locality, as the case
  
  may be;
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  f.   "goods"
  
  means any agricultural, natural or manufactured goods or any goods of
  
  handicraft or of industry and includes food stuff;
  g.   "indication"
  
  includes any name, geographical or figurative representation or any combination
  
  of them conveying or suggesting the geographical origin of goods to which it
  
  applies;
  h.   "name"
  
  includes any abbreviation of a name;
  i.   "package"
  
  includes any case, box, container, covering, folder, receptacle, vessel,
  
  casket, bottle, wrapper, label, band, ticket, reel, frame, capsule, cap, lid,
  
  stopper and cork;
  j.   "prescribed"
  
  means prescribed by rules made under this Act;
  k.   "producer",
  
  in relation to goods, means any person who,-
   
  
   i.  
  
    if
  
  such goods are agricultural goods, produces the goods and includes the person
  
  who processes or packages such goods;
   
  
   ii.  
  
    if
  
  such goods are natural goods, exploits the goods;
   
  
   iii.  
  
    if
  
  such goods are handicraft or industrial goods, makes or manufactures the goods,
  
  and includes any person who trades or deals in such production, exploitation,
  
  making or manufacturing, as the case may be, of the goods;
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  l.   "register"
  
  means the Register of Geographical Indications referred to in section 6;
  m.   "registered"
  
  (with its grammatical variations) means registered under this Act;
  n.   "registered
  
  proprietor", in relation to a geographical indication, means any
  
  association of persons or of producers or any organisation for the time being
  
  entered in the register as proprietor of the geographical indication;
  o.   "Registrar"
  
  means the Registrar of Geographical Indications referred to in section 3;
  p.   "tribunal"
  
  means the Registrar or, as the case may be, the Appellate Board before which
  
  the proceeding concerned is pending.
  2.  Words
  
  and expressions used and not defined in this Act but defined in the Trade Marks
  
  Act, 1999 shall have the meanings respectively assigned to them in that Act.(3)
  
  In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires, any reference-
  a.   to the use of a
  
  geographical indication shall be construed as a reference to the use of a
  
  printed or other visual representation of the geographical indication;
  b.   to the use of a
  
  geographical indication in relation to goods shall be construed as a reference
  
  to the use of the geographical indication upon, or in any physical or in any
  
  other relation whatsoever, to such goods;
  c.   to a registered
  
  geographical indication shall be construed as including a reference to a
  
  geographical indication registered in the register;
  d.   to the Registrar
  
  shall be construed as including a reference to any officer when discharging the
  
  functions of the Registrar in pursuance of sub-section (2) of section 3;
  e.   to the Geographical
  
  Indications Registry shall be construed as including a reference to any office
  
  of the Geographical Indications Registry.