Section 56, The Trade Marks Act, 2014

(1) Where the relations between two or more personsjointly interested in a trade mark do not permit the use of the trade mark by one of them except– (a) on behalf of both or all of them, or (b) in relation to an article with which both or all of them are connected in the course of trade, those persons may be registered as joint owners of the trade mark and this Act shall apply as if those rights had been vested in a single person; but the rights of any person registered as a joint owner shall be deemed to be infringed by any of the other owners who use the trade mark in physical or other relation to goods in respect of which the trade mark is registered under this section where both or all of the joint owners are not and have not been connected in the course of trade. (2) Subject to subsection (1), this Act does not authorise the registration of two or more persons who use a trade mark independently or propose to use it independently to be registered as joint owners.