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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 3RD SEPTEMBER, 1898.
GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.---No. 384.
The following Rules, made by His Excellency the Officer Administering the Government in Executive Council, this 31st day of August, 1898, are published.
By Command,
Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 31st August, 1898.
T. SERCOMBE SMITH,
Acting Colonial Secretary.
Interpreta- tion.
J'ecs.
Classifica- tion of goods.
Application by firm, &c.
Application as to goods
of more thau one class.
Foreign characters.
Advertise- meut.
Notice of opposition.
TRADE MARKS RULES, 1898.
By virtue of the provisions of Ordinance No. 18 of 1898, His Excellency the Governor in Council doth hereby make the following Rules :-
PRELIMINARY.
1. These Rules may be cited as The Trade Marks Rules, 1898, and shall come into operation on the 1st day of September, 1898.
INTERPRETATION.
2. In the construction of these Rules any words herein used defined by The Trade Marks Ordinance, 1898, shall have the meanings thereby assigned to them respectively.
FEES.
3. The fees to be paid as regards Trade Mark Matters shall be those specified in the First Schedule hereto. Such fees shall be paid to the Colonial Secretary for payment into the Treasury.
CLASSIFICATION OF GOODS.
4. For the purposes of trade marks registration and of these Rules, goods are classified in the manner appearing in the Second Schedule hereto.
If any doubt arises us to what class any particular de- scription of goods belongs to, the doubt shall be determined by the Colonial Secretary.
APPLICATION FOR REGISTRATION.
5. An application for registration of a trade mark, if made by any firm or partnership, may be signed by some one or more members of such firin or partnership, as the case may be.
Where the firm consists of more than one person the names of all the partners must be stated.
If the application be made by a body corporate it may be signed by the Secretary or other principal officer of such body corporate.
An application for registration may be made by or through a solicitor or other agent of the applicant duly authorised to the satisfaction of the Colonial Secretary, but such application must be accompanied by a statutory decla- ration or affidavit as required by the Ordinance, in the formi given in the Schedule to such Ordinance. Such statutory declaration or affidavit must be made by the applicant in person, or in the case of a firm or company may be made as provided by Rulo 26 (d) or (e).
6. Applications for the registration of the same mark in different classes shall be treated as separate and distinct applications.
7. Where a Trade Mark contains a word or words in a language other than English a correct translation into English of the foreign words should accompany the appli-
cation.
ADVERTISEMENT.
8. Advertisement must be made of every application as directed by the Ordinance and shall be in the form given in the Schedule to such Ordinance.
OPPOSITION TO REGISTRATION.
9. A notice of opposition must be addressed to the Colonial Secretary and must state the grounds on which the opponent intends to oppose the registration and must he signed by him or by his solicitor and must contain an address for service in Hongkong,