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(b) without the written permission of Ithe competent authority,
any honour or award, or any title or abbreviation of a title
thereof, created by the President;
(c) any armorial bearing, insignia or flag of any foreign state or
international intergovernmental organization;
(d) any honour or award, or any title or abbreviation of a title
thereof, of any foreign state;
(e) any title or abbreviation thereof of any international inter
governmental .organization,
17. Where a representation in any form of the armorial bearings,
insignia, orders of chivalry, decorations or flags of any city, borough,
town, place, society, body corporate, institution or person appears on
a mark, the Registrar, before proceeding to register the mark, may
require to be furnished 'with a consent to the registration and use
of those emblems from such official or other person as appears to
the Registrar to be entitled to give consent, and in default of that
consent he may refuse to register the mark.
Arms of city,
etc.
18. Where the 'name or representation of any person appears on
a trade mark, the Registrar may require, before proceeding to
register the mark to be furnished with consent from him or, in the
case of a person recently dead, from his legal representatives, and in
default of that consent he may refuse to register the mark.
Living persons
or persons
recently dead.
19. (1) Where the name or description of any goods appears on
a trade mark, the Registrar may refuse to register the mark in respect
of any goods other than the goods so named or described.
(2) Where the name or description of any goods appears on a
trade mark, which name or description in use varies, the Registrar may
permit the registration of the mark for those and other goods, and
in that case the applicant shall state in his application that the name
or description will be varied when the mark is used upon goods
covered by the specification other than the named or described goods.
Name or
description of
20. (1) A person who' proposes to apply for the registration of
a trade mark in Part A or Part B of the register in respect of any
goods may apply to the Registrar in form TM 28 or in form TM 27
in a case where he is also making an application under rule 114 for
advice as to whether the trade mark, of which duplicate representations
shall accompany the form, appears to the Registrar prima facie to
be inherently adapted to distinguish within the meaning of section 12,
or' inherently capable of distinguishing within the meaning of section
13, of the Act in relation to those goods, and shall apply separately
it! relation to goods comprised within different classes of goods in
the Third Sched ule to these Rules.
(2) A notice of withdrawal of an application for the registration
of a trade mark given under subsection (3) of section 43 of the Act
for the purpose of obtaining repayment of any fee paid on the
filing of the application shall be given in writing within two months
from the date of the notice of the Registrar's objection.
Preliminary
advice by
Registrar as to
distinctiveness,
Application for Registration of a Trade Mark
2 I. (I) An application to the Registrar for the registration of a
trade mark shall be signed by the applicant or his agent; for a trade
mark other than a certification or defensive trade mark the ap)Jlication
goods on a
trade mark.
Form of
application.
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