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Marking
Tegistered
designs,

Inspect 1on
of registered

designs,

Information
as to
existence of
copytight.

Ch. 31. No. 18.] Patents, Designs and Trade Marks.

(2) Before delivery on sale of any articles to which a
registered design has been applied, the proprictor must (if
exact representations or specimens were not furnished on
the appheation for registration) furnish to the Registrar the
preseribed number of exact representations or specimens of
the design; and if he fails to do so, the Registrar may
erase his name from the register, and thereupon his copyright
in the design shall cease.

25. Before delivery on sale of any articles to which a
registered design has been applied, the proprietor of the
de sign shall cause cach such article to be marked with the
prescribe do mark, or with the prescribed word or words or
figure. denoting that the design is registered; and if he
fails to do so the copyright in the design shall cease, unless
the proprictor shows that he took all proper steps to ensure
the marking of the article.

26. (1) During the -xistence of copyright ina design, the
design shall not be open to inspection except by the pro-
prietor or a persen authorised by the Registrar or by the
Court, and furnishing such information as may enable the
Registrar to identify the design, nor except in the presence
of the Registrar, nor except on payment of the prescribed
fee; and the person making the inspection shall not) be
entitled to take any copy of the design or of any part thereof,

(2) When the copyright in a design has ceased, the
design shall be open to mspection, and copies. thereof
may be taken by any person on payment of the prescribed
fee.

27. On the request of any person producing a particular
design, together with its mark of registration, or producing
only its mark of registration, or furnishing such information
as may enable the Registrar to identify the design, and on
payment of the pre scribed fee, it shall be the duty of the
Registrar to inform such person whether the registration
still exists in respeet of such design, and if so, in respect
of what class or classes of goods, and stating also the date
of registration, and the name and address of the registered
proprictor,