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PATENTS, DESIGNS AND TRADE MARKS.
ALIEN ENEMIES.
Procedure to be Followed under Rule 1 of the Patents,
Designs and Trade Marks (Temporary) Rules, the
Trade Marks (Temporary) Rules, and the Designs
(Temporary) Rules, 1914.
(1) A copy of the application when received will be at
once sent to the address for service in the United Kingdom
given by the patentee, licensee or proprietor of the Design
or Trade Mark, as the case may be, or to anyone whose name
appears upon the Register as having an interest in the Patent,
Design or Trade Mark.
(2) The date for hearing the application will be fixed on
receipt of the application, and will be notified to the applicant
and to the patentee, proprietor or other person interested,
at his address for service in the United Kingdom. The applica
tion and the date of the hearing will also be advertised in the
“ Illustrated Official Journal (Patents) ” or “ Trade Marks
Journal.” The date fixed for the hearing will be not less than
seven days after the advertisement of the application in the
“ Journal.”
(3) The applicant must produce evidence at the hearing
to satisfy the Tribunal in respect of (a), (6) and (c) of Rule 1,
and that he is not himself an alien enemy. The evidence
may be either oral or by way of statutory declaration. The
patentee or proprietor of the Design or Trade Mark or anyone
interested may appear at the hearing in opposition to the
application, provided that notice of his intention so to appear
be given in writing to the Comptroller at the Patent Office
before the date of the hearing.
Dated 7th September, 1914.
W. TEMPLE FRANKS,
Comptroller-General.