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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, JANUARY 7, 1910.

8. Where any person is by the Ordinance or these Address. Rules bound to furnish the Registrar with an address the following provisions shall apply:

The address given shall in all cases be as full as possible, for the purpose of enabling any person easily to find the place of business of the person whose address is given.

When a person does not reside in a town with streets, the Registrar may require the address to include all in- dications which he thinks necessary for such purpose so ar as it can be obtained.

When an applicant resides in a town where there are streets, the address given shall include the name of the street, and the number in the street or name of premises, if any.

9. Every applicant for the registration of any trade Address for mark, and every opponent to sucli registration, and every service. agent, who does not reside or carry on business in Hong- kong, shall, if so required, give an address for service in Hongkong, and such address may be treated as the actual address of such applicant, opponent, or agent for all purposes connected with such application for registration or the opposition thereto.

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The Registrar may require the proprietor of a registered trade mark who does not reside or carry on business with- in Hongkong to give an address for service within Houg- 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 Agents. to registration and all other communications between an an applicant, an opponent and the Registrar, and between the proprietor of a registered trade mark and the Re- gistrar, or any other person, may be made by or through an agent. In case any proprietor of a registered trade mark shall appoint such an agent, service upon such agent of any document relating to such trade inark 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 Registrable upon which the following appear :——

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(a.) The word “ Patent," Patented," or 66

Royal Letters Patent," "Registered," "Regis- tered Design," "Copyright," "Entered at Stationers' Hall," "To counterfeit this is forgery," or words to like effect.

(2.) Representations of Their Majesties or of any

member of the Royal Family.

trade marks.

12. Representations of the Royal Arms or Royal crests, Royal Arms. or arms or crests so nearly resembling them so 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 authorisation, 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 Trade Marks Ordinance, 1909, came into operation.

13. Where representations of the arms of a foreigu Armsď State or place appear on a mark the Registrar may call foreign for such justification as he may deem necessary for their State.

use.

14. Where a representation of the arms or emblems of Arms of any city, borough, town, place, scelery, body corporate, or City, ere, institution appears on a mark, the applicant shall, if so required, furnish the Registrar with a consent from such

ficial as the Registrar may consider entitled to give *conscut to the use of such arms or emblems,

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