LAWS OF MALAWI
Trade marks
Trade Marks Regulations
(2)
13.
Cap. 49:01
(Subsidiary)
The Registrar may require the address to include the name of the
street and the number of the street or name of the premises, if any.
Address for service
(1) The Registrar may require an applicant, opponent or agent, or a registered
proprietor or registered user of a trade mark, who does not reside or carry on
business within Malawi, to give an address for service within Malawi and such
address may be treated as the actual address of that person for all purposes
connected with the matter in question.
(2)
Any registered proprietor or registered user of a trade mark, or any
person about to be registered as such, may, if he so desires, give an
address for service for entry in the register, and such address may be
entered by the Registrar.
(3)
In any case in which no address for service is entered in the register,
the Registrar may treat the trade or business address of the registered
proprietor or registered user as therein entered as his address for
service for all purposes connected with the registration.
(4)
Any written communication addressed to a party or person as
aforesaid at an address given by him, or treated by the Registrar, as
his address for service shall be deemed to be properly addressed.
(5)
The Registrar, at any time that a doubt arises as to he continued
availability of an address for service entered in the register, may
request the person for whom it is entered, by letter address to his trade
or business address in the register, to confirm the address for service,
and if within three months of making such request the Registrar
receives no confirmation of that address, he may strike it off the
register.
Agency.
14.
(1) Except as otherwise required by these Regulations, any application, request
or notice which is required or permitted by the Act or these Regulations to be
made or given to the Registrar, and all other communications between an
applicant or a person making such a request or giving such a notice and the
Registrar, and between the registered proprietor or a registered user of a trade
mark and the Registrar 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 under the
Act and these Regulations by signing and sending to the Registrar an
authority to that effect in the form TM. No. 1, or in such other written
form as the Registrar may deem sufficient. In case of such
appointment, service upon the agent of any document relating to the
proceeding of matter shall be deemed to be service upon the person so
appointing him, all communications directed to be made to such