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Assignment and user of associated
No. 40 of 1909.
TRADE MARKS.
27. Associated trade marks shall be assignable or transmissible only as a whole and not separately, but they shall trade marks. for all other purposes be deemed to have been registered as
5 Edw. 7,
c. 15, s. 27.
Duration of
registration,
5 Edw. 7,
c. 15, s. 28.
Renewal of
5 Edw. 7, c. 15, s. 29.
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 Tribunal 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.
28. The registration of a trade mark shall be for a period of fourteen years, but may be renewed from time to time in accordance with the provisions of this Ordinance.
29. The Registrar shall, on application made by the registration. registered proprietor of a trade mark in the prescribed manner and within the prescribed period, 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".
Procedure on expiry of period of registration.
5 Edw. 7, c. 15, s. 30.
Omission to send, and non-receipt
of, notice
30. At the prescribed time before the expiration of the registration of a trade mark, the Registrar shall send notice in the prescribed manner to the registered proprietor at his registered address of the date at which the existing registration will expire and the conditions as to payment of fees and otherwise upon which a renewal of such registration may be obtained, and if at the expiration of the time prescribed in that behalf, such conditions have not been duly complied with, the Registrar may remove such trade mark from the register, subject to such conditions (if any) as to its restoration to the register as may be prescribed.
30A.-(1) Notwithstanding anything contained in this Ordinance or in the rules made thereunder, neither omission on the part of the Registrar to send the notice prescribed by section 30, nor the non-receipt by the registered proprietor of bar to removal any such notice, nor omission on the part of the Registrar to advertise the fact of non-payment of the renewal fee, shall be
of intended
removal no
of expired
trade mark
vested in
Custodian.
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* As amended by No. 7 of 1920 and Law Rev. Ord., 1924.
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