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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

>>

of

that mark is

registered the owner communicated with and given

the

opportunity of objeching to the regis.

tration.

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are

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