Trade Marks.
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Hong Kong to give an address for service within Hong Kong, and such address may be treated as the actual address of the proprietor for all purposes connected with such trade mark.
Agents.
10. An application for registration and an opposition to registration and all other communications between an applicant, an opponent and the Registrar, and between the proprietor of a registered trade mark and the Registrar, or any other person, may be made by or through an agent. In case any proprietor of a registered trade mark appoints such an agent, service upon such agent of any document relating to such trade mark shall be deemed to be service upon the person so appointing him, and all communications directed to be made to such person in respect of such trade mark may be addressed to such agent.
Registrable trade marks.
11. The Registrar may refuse to accept any application upon which the following appear-
(a) the word "Patent", "Patented", "By Royal Letters Patent", "Registered", "Registered Design", "Copyright", "Entered at Stationers' Hall", "To counterfeit this is forgery", or words to the like effect;
(b) representations of Their Majesties or of any member of the Royal Family.
12. Representations of the Royal Arms or Royal crests, or arms or crests so nearly resembling them as to lead to mistake, or of British Royal crowns, or of the British national flags, or the word "Royal" or any other words, letters or devices calculated to lead persons to think that the applicant has Royal patronage or authorization, may not appear on trade marks the registration of which is applied for: Provided always that nothing contained in this rule shall preclude the Registrar from allowing the registration, as an old mark, of any mark which was capable of being so registered before the Ordinance came into operation (Cap. 43).
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