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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, SEPT. 28,
1906.
Associated Trade Marks.
25. If application be made for the registration of a trade mark so closely resembling a trade mark of the applicant already on the register for the same goods or description of goods as in the opinion of the Registrar to be calculated to deceive or cause confusion if used by a person other than the applicant, the Registrar may require as a condition of registration that such trade marks shall be entered on the register as associated trade marks,
Associated trade marks.
26. If the proprietor of a trade mark claims to be Combined entitled to the exclusive use of any portion of such trade trade marks, mark separately, he may apply to register the same as separate trade marks. Each such separate trade mark must satisfy all the conditions and shall have all the incidents of an independent trade mark, except that when registered it and the trade mark of which it forms a part shall be deemed to be associated trade marks and shall be entered on the register as such, but the user of the whole trade mark shall for the purposes of this Ordinance be deemed to be also a user of such registered trade marks belonging to the same proprietor as it contains.
27. When a person claiming to be the proprietor of Sories of several trade marks for the same description of goods trade marks. which, while resembling each other in the material
particulars thereof, yet differ in respect of —
(a.) statements of the goods for which they are respectively used or proposed to be used ; or
(b) statements of number, price, quality, or
names of places; or
(r.) other matter of a non-distinctive character which does not substantially affect the identity of the trade mark ; or
(d.) colour;
seeks to register such trade marks, they may be regis- tered as a series in one registration. All the trade marks in a series of trade marks so registered shall be deemed to be, and shall be registered as, associated trade marks,
trade marks.
28. Associated trade marks shall be assignable or Assignment transmissible only as a whole and not separately, but and user of they shall for all other purposes be deemed to have associated been registered as separate trade marks, Provided that, where under the provisions of this Ordinance user of a registered trade mark is required to be proved for any purpose, the Supreme Court may, if and so far as it shall think right, accept user of an associated registered trade mark, or of the trade mark with additions or alterations not substantially affecting its identity, as an equivalent for such user.
Renewal of Registration.
29. The registration of a trade mark shall be for a Duration of period of fourteen years, but may be renewed from registration. time to time in accordance with the provisions of this Ordinance.
30. The Registrar shall, on application made in Renewal of writing by the registered proprietor of a trade mark registration. within a period of six months before the expiration of the last registration, renew the registration of such trade mark for a period of fourteen years from the expiration of the original registration or of the last renewal of registration, as the case may be, which date is herein termed “the expiration of the last registration".
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