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(3) Two or more registrations of a trade mark in respect of goods
falling within the same class of the Third Schedule, haying the same
date of registration, may be amalgamated upon conversion in accord
ance with this rule.
Advertisement
of proposal.
7. (1) The advertisement of a proposal for amendment under
subsection (3) of sec'tion 39 of .the Act shall be made in the Gazette,
and a notice of any opposition shall be given in form TM 44
within one month from the date of the advertisement, and shall be
accompanied by a duplicate of the notice and by ,a statement in dupli
cate showing how the proposed amendment would be contrary to
subsection (2) of that section.
(2) The Registrar shall forthwith send the duplicate copies to
tbe registered proprietor who may, within one month from the receipt
of such duplicates, send to the Registrar a counter-statement setting
out fully the grounds on which the opposition is contested and If he
does so he shall deliver to the opponent a copy thereof.
(3) The Registrar may thereupon require or admit evidence
directed to the questions in issue, and if so desired by either party he
shall, before deciding the matter, give the parties an opportunity of
being heard thereon.
Con version of
specifications.
8. (1) When a proposal for the conversion of a specification in
accordance with rule 6 has been advertised and has not been opposed.'
and the time for notice of opposition has expired, or having been
opposed the opposition has been determined and a conversion
allowed, nhe Registrar shall make all the entries in the register
necessary to give effect to the conversion in accordance with the
proposal as advertised, or the proposal as amended after opposition
or appeal thereon and published subsequently in the Gazette. and shall
enter in the register the date when such entries were made.
(2) The expression "the expiration of the last registration" shall
have regard to the same date in the case of all the resulting entries
for the purpose of determining the next renewal thereof in accordance
with section 23 of the Act as it had 'with regard to the registration
before conversion.
Documents
Size, etc., of
documents.
Signature of
documents by
partnerships,
companies and
associations.
9. Subject to any other directions that may be given by the
Registrar, all applications, notices, counter-statements, papers baving
representations affixed or other documents authorized or required by
the Act or these Rules to be 'made, left or sent, a t or 10 the office or
with or to the Registrar or the court, shall ·be on foolscap paper of a
size approximately 13 inches by 8 inches, and shall have on the left
hand part thereof a margin of not less than 1t inches.
10. (1) A document purporting to be signed for or on behalf of a
partnership shall contain the names of all the partners in full arid
shall be signed by all the partners or by any qualified partner stating
that he signs on behalf of the partnership, or by any other person who
satisfies the Registrar that he is authorized to sign the document.
(2) A document purporting to be signed for or on behalf of a
body corporate shall be signed by a director or by the secretary' or
other principal officer of the body corporate, or by any other person
who satisfies the Registrar that he is authorized to sign the document.
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