THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, OCTOBER 8, 1909.
ENTRY ON THE REGISTER.
45. As soon as may be after the expiration of one week Entry on from the date of the last advertisment in the Gazette of register. any application, the Registrar shall, subject to any opposi- tion and the determination thereof, and upon payment of the prescribed fee on Form No. 7, enter the trade mark in the register. The entry of a trade mark on the register shall give the date of the registration, the goods in respect of which it is registered, and all particulars named in section 4 of the Ordinance, and such other particulars as the Registrar may deem necessary.
46. Where a mark is registered as associated with any Associated other mark or marks the Registrar shall note upon the marks. register in connection with such mark the numbers of the marks with which it is associated and such also note upon the register in connection with each of the associated marks the number of the newly registered mark as being an associated mark with each of them.
47. In case of the death of any applicant for a trade Death of mark after the date of his application and before the trade applicant mark applied for has been entered on the register, the before re- Registrar, after the expiration of the prescribed period of gistration. advertisement, may, on being satisfied of the applicant's death, enter on the register, in place of the name of such deceased applicant, the name, address and description of the person owning the goodwill of the business, on such ownership being proved to the satisfaction of the Registrar.
48. Upon the registration of a trade mark the Registrar Certificate of shall issue to the applicant a certificate in the Form No. S. registration.
ASSIGNMENT.
49. The Registrar may on request made jointly by a Joint request registered proprietor of a mark and the person to whom for entry of he has assigned such mark, together with the goodwill of assignment. the business concerned in the goods for which it has been registered, register the assignee as proprietor of the mark. Such application shall be in Form No. 9. If the Registrar so require, the assignee shall furnish a declaration in Form No. 10.
50. Where no such joint request is made, any person Request for who has become entitled to a registered trade mark by entry of assignment, transmission, or other operation of law, may assignment request the Registrar to enter his name in the register as by subse- proprietor of such trade mark. The request shall be on quent Form No. 11, and such request shall contain the name, address, and description of the person claiming to be entitled to the trade mark, hereinafter called the claimant.
proprietor.
51. Together with such request the claimant shall for- Case accom- ward a case stating full particulars of the assignment, paying transmission, or other operation of law by virtue of which request. he claims to be entitled to be entered in the register as proprietor of the trade mark, so as to show the manner in which and the person or persons to whom the trade mark has been assigned or transmitted, and so as to show further that it has been so assigned or transmitted in connection with the goodwill of the business concerned in the goods for which the trade mark has been registered.
62. Such request shall in the case of an individual be Signature of made and signed by the claimant, and in the case of a request, firm or partnership by one or more members of such firm
or partnership, and in the case of a body corporate shall be signed by a director or by the secretary or other principal officer of such body corporate.
53. Where the Registrar shall determine that the case sets out particulars such as entitle the claimant to be declaration
Statutory registered as proprietor of such trade mark, he may in in support his discretion call upon the claimant to furnish a statutory of request. declaration in Form No. 12 verifying the several state- ments in the case and declaring that the particulars given comprise every material fact and document affecting the proprietorship of the trade mark claimed by such request.
54. In any case the Registrar may call on any person Proof of who desires to be registered as proprietor of a trade mark title. for such proof or additional proof of title and of the existence and ownership of such goodwill as aforesaid as the Registrar may require for his satisfaction.
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