CHAPTER XV.-MISCELLANEOUS

 

 

86. Certificate of validity to be noted.- Where the court has certified as provided in section 112 with regard to the validity of a registered trade mark, the registered proprietor thereof may request the Registrar in the form as set out in Form TM-47 to add to the entry in the Register a note that the certificate of validity has been granted in the course of proceedings, particulars of which shall be given in the request. An officially certified copy of the certificate shall be sent with the request, and the Registrar shall record a note to that effect in the Register and publish the note in the Journal.

 

87. Request to Registrar for search.- A person may in the form as set out in Form TM-55 request the Registrar to cause a search to be made in respect of specified goods or services classified in any one class of the Fourth Schedule to ascertain whether any mark in the Register or among pending applications for registration resembles a trade mark of which duplicate representations accompany the form. The Registrar shall cause such search to be made and the person making the request to be informed of the result thereof.

 

88. Personal Search.- A person may also conduct personal search on payment of the fee in respect of the specified goods or services in any one class of the Fourth Schedule to ascertain whether any mark in the Register or among pending applications for registration resembles a trade mark of which he desires registration.

 

89. Distribution of copies of Journal and any other document.- The Federal Government may direct the Registrar to distribute the Journal and any other document which it may consider necessary, to such places as may be fixed by the Federal Government in consultation with the Provincial Governments and notified from time to time in the official Gazette.

 

90. Applications made to the Court to be served on the Registrar.- Every application to the High Court under the Ordinance shall be served on the Registrar.

 

91. Exercise of discretionary power of Registrar.- The time within which a person entitled under sub-section (2) of section 111 to an opportunity of being heard shall exercise his option of requiring to be heard shall, save as otherwise expressly provided in the Ordinance or these rules, be one month from the date of a notice which the Registrar shall give to such person before determining the matter with reference to which such person shall be entitled to be heard, if within that month such person requires to be heard the Registrar shall appoint a date for the hearing and shall give ten days’ notice thereof.

 

92. Notification of decision.- The decision of the Registrar in the exercise of any discretionary power given to him, by the Ordinance or these rules shall be notified to the person affected.