The Registrar serves a notice of opposition on an applicant for a geographical indication. The…

Under section 14(2), the applicant must send a counter-statement "within two months from the receipt by the applicant" of the notice of opposition, failing which "he shall be deemed to have abandoned his application". Ten weeks exceeds two months, so the application is deemed abandoned. The period is two months, not three, and the Act does not treat silence as consent or require the Registrar to decide on merits.