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No. 12
Trade and Service Marks
1986
and the trade or service mark, when registered, shall be registered as
of the date on which the application for registration was received,
and that date shall be deemed, for the purposes of this Act, to be
the date of registration, provided that the foregoing provisions of
this subsection, relating to the date as of which a trade or service mark
shall be registered and to the date to be deemed to be the date of registration, shall, as respects a trade or service mark registered under this
Act with the benefit of priority under the Convention, have effect
subject to the provisions of the Convention.
(2) on the registration of a trade or service mark, the Registrar shall
cause to be sealed and shall issue to the applicant a certificate in the
prescribed form of the registration thereof
PART VI
DURATION AND RENEWAL OF REGISTRATION
Term of
registration
and renewal
29.- (1) The registration or a trade or service mark shall be for a period
of seven years from the date of registration but may be renewed from time
to time in accordance with the provisions of this section.
(2) Subject to subsection (4), the Registrar shall on application made by
the registered proprietor of a trade or service mark in the prescribed manner
and within the prescribed period, renew the registration of the trade or service
mark for a period of ten years from the date of expiration of original
registration or of the last renewal of registration. the date which is referred
to in this section as the ''expiration of the last registration'' , provided that
the registered proprietor(a) submits a statement confirming those goods or services described in
the registration in respect of which there has been bonafide use of the
trade or service mark in Tanzania at any time during the three years
immediately preceding the expiration of the last registration, together
with a reproduction of the trade or service mark which has been used
as aforesaid; or
(b) established, to the satisfaction of the Registrar that special circumstances prevented use of the trade or service mark in respect of any of the
goods or services described in the registration during the aforesaid
period and confirms that there has been no intention to abandon the
trade or service mark in respect of those goods or services.
(3) For the purposes of subsection (2) (a) the use of the whole of a registered trade or service mark shall be
deemed to be equivalent to the use of any registered trade or service
mark being a part thereof, registered in the name of the same proprietor by virtue of section 25 (1);
(b) where a trade or service mark has been used in relation to some, but
not all of the goods or services in respect of which it is registered, such
use shall be deemed to be equivalent to the use of the trade or service
mark in relation to all closely related goods or services in respect of
which it is registered;