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24. Another aspect to recognize is that the first respondent carries on business under the trading name 'Sharp Industries', and the registration certificate from the Registrar of Firms indicates that the partnership was registered under the above name on 04.04.1983. The first respondent applied for registration on 27.02.1996 by asserting use since 01.01.1979. In support of such https://www.mhc.tn.gov.in/judis assertion, the sales turnover and advertising expenditure from the financial year ended 31.03.1981 was placed on record. The data indicates that the sales turnover was Rs.112,077,545 in the financial year ended 31.03.1996. While this data is not corroborated by producing the financial statement, it is signed by the Managing Director of Sharp Industries/ the first respondent. Invoices issued by advertising agencies to the first respondent from 1995 onwards and advertisements carried in the print media and bearing the first respondent's device mark from about July 1993 were also placed on record by the first respondent. Although the evidence placed on record by the first respondent regarding use since January 1979 is not wholly convincing, in the facts and circumstances, it is sufficient to support the conclusion that no bad faith was involved in the adoption and use of the element “SHARP' in the first respondent's mark.