Under section 25(b) of the GI Act, 1999, the Registrar of Trade Marks shall, of his own motion or at…

Section 25(b) covers a trade mark that "contains or consists of a geographical indication identifying goods or class or classes of goods notified under sub-section (2) of section 22". For such notified goods, refusal does not depend on proof that the public is misled, unlike section 25(a). Section 25 does not bar every place name.