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which the above Ordinance was enacted
to afford, stating:-
is at
That without in any way moking the application public amyone liberty to apply for the exclusive right
conforming to the requirements of the Ardinance .
any
Trade Marks
That the fact of such application having been made is notified in the Government Gazette only after the re= gistration of the Mark has already
bean granted', with the reverit that should it prove to be an infringement only get the registration
the owner can
cancelled after, probably, very delay and expense.
considerable
That in England Marks hondered
for registration
are
so a
severe
subject, scrutiny at the hands of a large staff of experts and compared with those already registered, and if any resem. blance is supposed to exist between the other already any
mark tendered and
registered
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of
that mark is
registered the owner communicated with and given
the
opportunity of objeching to the regis.
tration.
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As the requirements of the Co= lony in the matter of registration not such as to justify the maintain = ing of a Special Staff for the inves= tigation of Trade Marks, Messrs. Gibb Livingston &C = think
clause might advantageously be introduced into the Ardinance making it compulsory that all applications for registration should I public at the date of appli- cation, and continue to be made public, at interials, by notification in the Government Gazette, or otherwive, un. til the date of registration.
be made
These gentlemen further suggest
that it secus desirable that a
period of three months should be alloried to clapse before granting registration to admit of
find to communicate with, and re-
ceiveste