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Section 26, The Trade Marks Act, 2014
Status not yet checkedThe Trade Marks Act, 2014, Sierra Leone
(1) A person applies a trade mark or trade description togoods who-
(a) applies the trade mark, mark or trade
description to goods directly or causes the
trade mark, or trade description to be applied
to goods;
(b) applies it to a covering, label, reel, or any
other thing in which the goods are sold or
exposed or had in possession for the purpose
of sale, trade, or manufacture; or
(c) places, encloses, or annexes any goods which
are sold or exposed or had in possession for
the purpose of sale, trade, or manufacture,
in, with, or to a covering, label, reel, or any
other thing to which a trade mark or trade
description has been applied; or
(d) uses a trade mark or mark or trade description
in a manner likely to lead to the belief that the
goods in connection with which it is used
are designed or described by that trade mark
or mark or trade description.
(2) A trade mark or mark or trade description is applied
whether it is woven, impressed or otherwise worked into, or annexed
or affixed to the goods or to a covering, label, reel or any other thing.
(3) Goods delivered in pursuance of a request made by
reference to a trade mark or trade description appearing in an
advertisement, invoice, sign, list, business letter, business paper or
any other commercial communication, are, for the purposes of
paragraph (d) of subsection (1), goods in connection with which the
trade mark or trade description is used.
(4) The particulars on the customs entry relating to any
imported goods are, for the purposes of this Act, a trade description
applying to the goods.
(5) A person falsely applies a trade mark to goods if,
without the consent of the owner of a trade mark, the trade mark or
mark applied resembles the original as to be likely to deceive; but in
a prosecution for falsely applying a trade mark or mark to goods the
burden of proving the consent of the owner is on the defendant.
(6) In this section -
"covering" includes a stopper, cork, bottle, vessel,
box, cover, capsule, case, frame or wrapper;
"label" includes a band or ticket.
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