A.D. 1890.]
MERCHANDISE MARKS.
[No. 4.
"Goods" mean anything which is the subject of trade, manufacture, or merchandise:
"Person", "Manufacturer", "Dealer", or "Trader", and "Proprietor" include any body of persons, corporate or unincorporate:
"Name" includes any abbreviation of a name.
(2.) The provisions of this Ordinance respecting the application of a false trade description to goods shall extend to the application to goods of any such figures, words, or marks, or arrangement or combination thereof, whether including a trade mark or not, as are reasonably calculated to lead persons to believe that the goods are the manufacture or merchandise of some person other than the person whose manufacture or merchandise they really are.
(3.) The provisions of this Ordinance respecting the application of a false trade description to goods, or respecting goods to which a false trade description is applied, shall extend to the application to goods of false name or initials of a person, and to goods with the false name or initials of a person applied, in like manner as if such name or initials were a trade description, and for the purposes of this enactment the expression "false name" or "initials" means, as applied to any goods, any name or initials of a person which-
(a.) are not a trade mark or part of a trade mark; and
(b.) are identical with or a colourable imitation of the name or initials of a person carrying on business in connexion with goods of the same description, and not having authorized the use of such name or initials; and
(c.) are either those of a fictitious person or of some person not bona fide carrying on business in connexion with such goods.
3. (1.) Every person who-
(a.) forges any trade mark; or
Offences as to trade marks and trade descriptions.
(b.) falsely applies to goods any trade mark or any mark so nearly resembling a trade mark as to be calculated to deceive; or
(c.) makes any die, block, machine, or other instrument for the purpose of forging, or of being used for forging, a trade mark;
or
(d.) applies any false trade description to goods; or
(e.) disposes of or has in his possession any die, block, machine, or other instrument for the purpose of forging a trade mark; or
(f.) causes any of the things above in this section mentioned to be done,
shall, subject to the provisions of this Ordinance and unless he proves that he acted without intent to defraud, be guilty of an offence against this Ordinance.
50 & 51 Vict. c. 28 s. 2.