Stassen Exports Ltd. v. Registrar Of Patents And Trade Marks And Others – sllr 2006 volume 1 page 340

In the case between Stassen Exports Ltd. and the Registrar of Patents and Trade Marks (with others including the 2nd Defendant Respondent), the court addressed whether the plaintiff’s consolidated action challenging the registration of eight trade marks, after a failure to file a timely notice of opposition, was procedurally valid under the applicable law. The court held that, in the absence of a prescribed procedure in the Code of Intellectual Property Act, section 8 of the Civil Procedure Code permits the filing of a single consolidated action where the same parties and issues are involved. The decision reaffirmed the principle that unnecessary multiplicity of actions should be avoided when possible. This approach was supported by reliance on both the Code of Intellectual Property Act an