N95 Is A Generic Term: IPAB Stays Operation of Registration Of N95 Trademark

The Intellectual Property Appellate Board has stayed the operation of registration of ‘N95’ as trademark. The term N95 is a generic term in the mask industry, the same is not capable of being neither registered or protected as trademark nor the same can be appropriated by any one entity, the Board observed while considering a Rectification Application is filed by SASSOON FAB International Pvt. Ltd.