Trade Marks
[CAP. 401
(3) Subject to any agreement subsisting between the parties, a
registered user of a trade mark shall be entitled to call upon the pro
prietor thereof to take proceedings to prevent infringement thereof
and, if the proprietor refuses or neglects to do so within two months
after being so called upon, the registered user may institute proceed
ings for infringement in his own name as if he were the proprietor,
making the proprietor a defendant. A proprietor so added as defen
dant shall not be liable for any costs unless he enters an appearance
and takes part in the proceedings.
(4) Where it is proposed that a person should be registered as a
registered user of ~.Jr~d.eJ!larJc.. the proprietor and the proposed reg
istered user must apply in writing to the Registrar in the prescribed
manner and must furnish him with an affidavit or a solemn declara
tion made by the proprietor or by some person authorised to act on
his behalf and approved by the Registrar
(a) giving particulars of the relationship existing or proposed
between the proprietor and the proposed registered user,
including particulars showing the degree of control by the
proprietor over the permitted use which their relationship
will confer and whether it is a term of their relationship that
the 'proposed registered user shall be the sole registered
user or that there shall be any other restriction as to persons
for whose registration as registered users application may
be made;
(b) stating the,goods in respect of which registration is pro
posed;
(c) stating any conditions or restrictions proposed with respect
to the characteristics of the..goods.ro the mode or place of
permitted use or to any other matter; and
(d) stating whether the permitted use is to be for a period or
without limit of period and, if for a period, the duration
thereof;
and with such further documents, information or evidence as may be
required under the regulations or by the Registrar.
(5) When the requirements of subsection (4) have been complied
with, if the Registrar, after considering the information furnished to
him under that subsection, is satisfied that in all the circumstances
the use of the trade marK1I!.~~!~p()~J.QJb.e'pro1?Q~¢ .,go¢s .Q!..~Y_of
them by the proposed registered user, subject to any conditions or
restrictions which the Registrar thinks proper, would not be contrary
to the public interest, the Registrar may register the proposed regis
tered user as a registered user in respect of the goQds..as to which he
is so satisfied subject as aforesaid.
(6) The Registrar shall refuse an application under the foregoing
provisions of this section if it appears to him that the grant thereof
would tend to facilitate trafficking in a trade mark.
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