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[Subsidiary]
Agency.
Registrable
trade marks.
Flags, emblems,
arms, etc.
Agents
14. (1) Except as otherwise required by" these Rules, any applica
tion, request or notice which is required or permitted by the Act
or these Rules to be made or given to the Registrar or the court, and
all other communications between an applicant or a person making
such a request or giving such a notice and the Registrar, or the court,
and between the registered proprietor or a registered user of a trade
mark and the Registrar or the court or any other person, .may be
signed, made or given by or through an agent.
(2) Any such applicant. person 'making request or giving notice,
proprietor or registered User may appoint .an agent to act for him in
any proceeding or matter before or affecting the Registrar or the court
under the Act and these Rules by signing and sending "to' the
Registrar or the court, as the case may be. an authority to that effect
in form TM 1 or in such other written form as the Registrar or the
court may deem sufficient.
(3) In case of such appointment. service upon the agent of any
document relating to the proceeding or matter shall be deemed to be
service upon the person so appointing him, all communications directed
to be made to that person In respect of the proceeding or matter may
be addressed to the agent, and all attendances upon the Registrar
relating thereto may be made by or through the agent.
(4) In any particular case the Registrar may require the 'personal
signature or presence of an applicant, opponent, proprietor, registered
user or other person.
Registrable Trade Marks and Preliminary Advice (Section 43)
15. (l) The Registrar may refuse to accept any application for
the registration of a mark upon which any of the following appear
(0) the words "Patent", "Patented". "Registered", "Registered
Design", "Copyright". "Entered at Stationer's Hall" or "To
counterfeit this is a forgery", or words to similar effect;
(b) representations of the Head of State of any foreign ~~te, or
any colourable imitation thereof;
(c) the words "Red Cross". or "Geneva Cross", and representations
of the Geneva and other crosses in red. or of the Swiss
Federal cross in white on a red ground or silver on a red
ground, or such representations in a similar colour' or colours.
(2) Where there appears in a trade mark the registration of which
is applied for a representation of a cross in any colour. not being one
of rthose mentioned in .subparagraph (c) of paragraph (1), the Registrar
may -require the applicant as a condition of acceptance to undertake
not to use the cross device on red, or in white on a red ground .or
silver on a red ground, O!J in any similar colour or colours.
16. Representations in any form 'Of any of the following, or any
device so nearly resembling them as to be likely to lead to rnistake,
may not appear on trade marks the registration of which is 'applied
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(a) without. the written permission of the competent authority,
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any specified. emblem, . specified likeness or speoified name
within the meaning of section 2 of the National. Flag,
Emblems and Names Act;
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