Section 8 Trade Marks Act 1967

Section 8 of the Trade Marks Act 1967 is about Saving for use of name, address or description of goods. It is under ‘Effects of registration and non-registration’ of the Act. It provides as follows:

The registration of a trade mark shall not interfere with-
(a) any bona fide use by a person of his own name or the name of his place of
business, or of the name, or the name of the place of business, of any of his
predecessors in business; or

(b) the use by any person of any bona fide description of the character or quality
of his goods, not being a description that would be likely to be taken as importing any such reference as is mentioned in section 5 (2) (b) or 43 (4) (b) of this Act.

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