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

32. Where the registration of a trade mark shall not
be completed within twelve months from the date of the
application, by reasons of default on the part of the
applicant, the application shall be deemed to be abandoned.

33. (1) For the purposes of this Ordinance, a trade
mark must consist of or contain at least one of the following
sssential particulars —

(a) a name of an individual or firm printed, impressed
or woven in some particular and distinctive manner; or

(6) a written signature or copy of a written signature
of the individual or firm applying for registration thereof
as a trade mark; or

(c) a distinctive device, mark, brand, heading, label,
or ticket; or

(dz) an invented word or invented words; or

(ec) a word or words having no reference to the
character or quality of the goods, and not being a
geographical name.

(2) There may be added to any one or more of the
essential particulars mentioned in this section any letters,
words, or figures, or combination of letters, words, or figures
or of any of them, but the applicant for registration of any
such additional matter must state in his application the
essential particulars of the trade mark, and must disclaim
in his application any right to the exclusive use of the added
matter, and a copy of the statement and disclaimer shall
be entered on the register.

(3) Provided that—

(a) a person need not, under this section, disclaim his
own name, or the foreign equivalent thereof, or his
place of business, but no entry of any such name shall
affect the right of any owner of the same name to use
that name or the foreign equivalent thereof;

(b) any special and distinctive word or words, letter,
figure, or combination of letters or figures, or of letters
and figures, used as a trade mark, either in the Colony
or elsewhere, before the 13th of August, 1875, may be
registered as a trade mark.

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Limit of time
for complet-
ing registra-
tion.

Conditions
of registra
tion of
trade mark.