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TABLE XIX

TRADE MARKS REGISTRY

I. STATISTICS FOR THE YEARS 1954-55 TO 1963-64

APPLICATIONS, REGISTRATIONS, RENEWALS, REMOVALS AND CANCELLATIONS

Year

Applications for registration

Trade Marks registered

Trade Marks renewed

Trade Marks registered under Re- construction Ord. (Cap. 262)

Trade Marks removed

Trade Marks cancelled

No. of marks on Register

1954-55 ...

1,183* 347+

1,141

257

27

10,960

I

Part A Part B

Part A Part B

}

1955-56...

1,498

19

923

6

255

113

6

11.992

1956-57 ...

1,278

33

1,001

36

175

106

3

4

13,128

1957-58 ...

1,562

23

1,075

27

142

70

3

14,157

1958-59...

1,595

31

1,287

34

186

188

6

15,284

1959-60...

1,765

17

1,348

43

118

46

5

16,624

1960-61 ...

1,668

9

1,043 13

118

47

4

17,629

1961-62...

1,824

18

1,074

21

881

316

4.

18,404

1962-63 ...

1,986 8

1,519

44

1,875

879

41

19,047

1963-64...'

2,138

13

1,166

34

1,540

872

4

19,371

* Up to 31st December, 1954 under the Trade Marks Ordinance (Cap. 43). † From 1st January, 1955 under the Trade Marks Ordinance, 1954, which came into operation on that day.